Boeing whistleblower says he had to downplay issues when inspecting planes: ‘just a matter of time’

A former quality manager of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems says he was pressured to downplay defects he discovered while inspecting the troubled planes’ fuselages — and that he always felt it was “just a matter of time before something bad happened.”

Santiago Paredes says he saw hundreds of defects daily when conducting final inspections on 737 fuselages at the Spirit AeroSystems factory in Wichita, Kansas, before they were shipped to Boeing.

“If quality mattered, I would still be at Spirit,” Paredes, who quit in 2022, told CBS News. “It was very rare for us to look at a job and not find any defects.”

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