“It established that the location of at least 53 ’non-conforming’ parts in the factory was unknown, and that they were considered lost.”
John Barnett spent seven years as a quality manager at Boeing’s 787 plant in North Charleston. He said workers pulled sub-standard parts from scrap bins to keep the line moving and that oxygen systems failed 25% of tests. Boeing denied it, and a 2017 FAA review upheld some of it anyway. He died in the middle of deposition in his own whistleblower case, the same week the FAA’s audit found Boeing failing quality control.