The troubled jet firm has been set a deadline to present its plans to federal regulators Federal Aviation Administration on how it will fix the safety problems that has plagued some of its aircraft.
A Boeing whistleblower has called for a criminal investigation to be opened into the beleaguered company because their 'planes are not safe'.
The company has been pushed into crisis mode since a door-plug panel blew off a 737 Max jetliners during an Alaska Airlines flight in January, seen here Read More Full timeline of Boeing problems in 2024, from whistleblowers' deaths to turbulence horrors Now, Mr Pierson has suggested Boeing may have failed to meet the FAA's deadline and requested an extension after it was told to produce a turnaround plan following the blowout.He said: 'What really needs to happen, as we have said before, is there needs to be a full criminal investigation because these airplanes are not safe. They are still not safe.
This picture taken at the Tanjung Priok Jakarta port on October 30, 2018 shows Indonesian people examining debris of the ill-fated Lion Air flight JT 610 in Jakarta which killed 189 Rescuers bring up one of the engines recovered from the crash site of the Sriwijaya Air flight at the port in Jakarta on January 10, 2021
The FAA added that it was investigating 'whether Boeing completed the inspections and whether company employees may have falsified aircraft records'. A Boeing 737 Max operated by United Airlines veered off the tarmac into the grass when exiting the runway at George Bush Airport in Houston in March In 2021, Boeing said the planes had shims that were not the proper size and some aircraft had areas that did not meet skin-flatness specifications. A shim is a thin piece of material used to fill tiny gaps in a manufactured product.A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 was forced to make an emergency landing at Denver International Airport after part of the engine blew off in early April.
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