Exclusive Interview: What’s Wrong with Boeing? Some Parts Are Made in China with Substandard Materials
Hello, everyone, welcome to “Inconvenient Truths”. I am your host Jennifer Zeng.
Several days ago, on Feb 20, we heard about another Boeing incident: the engine of a Boeing 777 blew apart after takeoff from Denver. It was lucky that on one was hurt. Then, two days later, on Feb 22, a Boeing 757–200 of Delta Air Lines made an emergency landing at Salt Lake International Airport after an engine performance issue.
You may also remember that in 2018 and 2019, two Boeing 737 Max crashed and killed 346 people, and that model of Boeing planes have been grounded ever since. Although the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, announced in Nov last year that it had cleared Boeing’s 737 Max for flight after a “comprehensive and methodical məˈθɒd ɪ kəl ” 20-month review process, the planes won’t return to the skies before pilot training is done.
Have you ever asked what’s wrong with Boeing? Well, I have. Back in 2019, I did an interview on behalf of the Epoch Times with a former supply chain manager of the contractor for Boeing’s flight control systems after the crashes of the 2 Boeing 737 Max. Let’s show Picture A. This is the report I wrote after the interview. This manager told me some shocking facts: substandard parts made in…