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Boeing Defends Safety of 787 Dreamliner After Whistle-Blower's Claims

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Key Focus

  • In a briefing for reporters at the factory in North Charleston, S.C., where the plane is assembled, two top Boeing engineers said the company had conducted exhaustive tests, inspections and analyses of the plane, both during its development and in recent years, and found no evidence that its body would fail prematurely. ...
  • "Not only did we interrogate those airframes - we were taking out fasteners, we were looking for damage, we're also doing the approval inspections to understand the build condition, and we didn't find any fatigue issues in the composite structure," said Steve Chisholm, a vice president and the functional chief engineer for mechanical and structural engineering at Boeing.. . Mr. Chisholm said the company had put the Dreamliner through extensive tests that turned up no evidence of fatigue in the jet's composite structure. ...
  • After a Boeing engineer went public with safety concerns, the company invited reporters to its South Carolina factory and top engineers vouched for the plane.. . Boeing sought on Monday to reassure the public of the safety of its 787 Dreamliner plane days before a whistle-blower is scheduled to testify before Congress about his concerns regarding the jet's structural integrity ...

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    Supporting narratives:

    Please refer to knowledge diagram for a complete set of supporting narratives.

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • In a statement on Monday, Debra S. Katz, a lawyer for Mr. Salehpour, urged caution about accepting Boeing's assertions about the Dreamliner as fact. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (company,dreamliner,salehpour)
        • (company,dreamliner,assertions)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (company,dreamliner,five-thousandths) [inferred]
        • (company,dreamliner,salehpour) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • That aircraft has been through about 16,500 cycles, the company said.. . . In a statement on Monday, Debra S. Katz, a lawyer for Mr. Salehpour, urged caution about accepting Boeing's assertions about the Dreamliner as fact. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (company,salehpour)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • In a briefing for reporters at the factory in North Charleston, S.C., where the plane is assembled, two top Boeing engineers said the company had conducted exhaustive tests, inspections and analyses of the plane, both during its development and in recent years, and found no evidence that its body would fail prematurely ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (company,factory)
        • (company,exhaustive)
        • (company,north_charleston)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • In a briefing for reporters at the factory in North Charleston, S.C., where the plane is assembled, two top Boeing engineers said the company had conducted exhaustive tests, inspections and analyses of the plane, both during its development and in recent years, and found no evidence that its body would fail prematurely. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (company,evidence)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • In a statement on Monday, Debra S. Katz, a lawyer for Mr. Salehpour, urged caution about accepting Boeing's assertions about the Dreamliner as fact.. . "We cannot speak or respond to data that we haven't seen, but Boeing has always said 'just trust us'when it comes to safety," Ms ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (dreamliner,assertions)
        • (dreamliner,salehpour,assertions)
        • Inferred entity relationships (2)
        • (assertions,dreamliner) [inferred]
        • (assertions,dreamliner,salehpour) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating his allegations.. . Mr. Salehpour's claims instantly created another public-relations problem for Boeing, which has been facing intense scrutiny over its manufacturing practices after a panel came off a 737 Max during an Alaska Airlines flight in January ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (salehpour,public-relations)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Boeing began investigating problems with gaps in the Dreamliner about five years ago, eventually discovering that some between adjoining parts of the plane's body did not meet its own specifications of being less than five-thousandths of an inch thick. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (company,dreamliner,five-thousandths)
        • (safety,five-thousandths)
        • (dreamliner,safety,five-thousandths)
        • (dreamliner,five-thousandths)
        • Inferred entity relationships (4)
        • (dreamliner,five-thousandths,safety) [inferred]
        • (dreamliner,five-thousandths) [inferred]
        • (five-thousandths,safety) [inferred]
        • (company,dreamliner,salehpour) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • The company also said that research and testing over the past few years had found that the larger gaps posed no threat to the plane's long-term durability. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (company,threat)
        • (company,long-term)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • . The company noted that 671 Dreamliners had gone through thorough six-year maintenance checks, while eight had gone through 12-year checks, and it said that none of those checks found any signs of premature fatigue ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (company,maintenance)
        • (company,six-year)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • The 787 plane with the highest number of cycles belongs to a Japanese airline, All Nippon Airways, which received it in late 2012, according to Boeing. That aircraft has been through about 16,500 cycles, the company said. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (company,japanese)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Boeing began investigating problems with gaps in the Dreamliner about five years ago, eventually discovering that some between adjoining parts of the plane's body did not meet its own specifications of being less than five-thousandths of an inch thick. That led the company to pause deliveries for about 18 months as it inspected its processes and planes, making changes where appropriate ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (company,five-thousandths)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • After a Boeing engineer went public with safety concerns, the company invited reporters to its South Carolina factory and top engineers vouched for the plane.. . Boeing sought on Monday to reassure the public of the safety of its 787 Dreamliner plane days before a whistle-blower is scheduled to testify before Congress about his concerns regarding the jet's structural integrity ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (company,factory)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • "Not only did we interrogate those airframes - we were taking out fasteners, we were looking for damage, we're also doing the approval inspections to understand the build condition, and we didn't find any fatigue issues in the composite structure," said Steve Chisholm, a vice president and the functional chief engineer for mechanical and structural engineering at Boeing.. . Mr. Chisholm said the company had put the Dreamliner through extensive tests that turned up no evidence of fatigue in the jet's composite structure. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (company,evidence)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • "We cannot speak or respond to data that we haven't seen, but Boeing has always said 'just trust us'when it comes to safety," Ms. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (dreamliner,salehpour,safety)
        • (salehpour,safety)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (safety,salehpour) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Salehpour's claims instantly created another public-relations problem for Boeing, which has been facing intense scrutiny over its manufacturing practices after a panel came off a 737 Max during an Alaska Airlines flight in January. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
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        • (dreamliner,salehpour,public-relations)
        • (salehpour,flight)
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        • Inferred entity relationships (6)
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        • (dreamliner,public-relations,salehpour) [inferred]
        • (dreamliner,public-relations) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Salehpour's claims instantly created another public-relations problem for Boeing, which has been facing intense scrutiny over its manufacturing practices after a panel came off a 737 Max during an Alaska Airlines flight in January.. . Mr. Salehpour said that the gaps where sections of the Dreamliner's fuselage were fastened together did not always meet Boeing's specifications, something that he said could weaken the aircraft over time ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (dreamliner,salehpour,flight)
        • (dreamliner,salehpour,fastened)
        • (dreamliner,salehpour,fuselage)
        • (dreamliner,alaska_airlines)
        • (dreamliner,salehpour,max)
        • (dreamliner,salehpour,alaska_airlines)
        • (dreamliner,flight)
        • (dreamliner,max)
        • (dreamliner,fastened)
        • Inferred entity relationships (13)
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        • (fastened,salehpour) [inferred]
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        • (dreamliner,max) [inferred]
        • (dreamliner,fastened) [inferred]
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        • (dreamliner,fastened,salehpour) [inferred]
        • (dreamliner,fuselage) [inferred]
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    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • The presentation came just under a week after The New York Times reported the allegations by the whistle-blower, Sam Salehpour, who works as a quality engineer at Boeing and is set to testify before a Senate panel on Wednesday. Mr. Salehpour said that sections of the fuselage of the Dreamliner, a wide-body plane that makes extensive use of composite materials, were not properly fastened together and that the plane could suffer structural failure over time as a result ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (dreamliner,fuselage)
        • (salehpour,fuselage)
        • (dreamliner,salehpour,fuselage)
        • Inferred entity relationships (3)
        • (fuselage,salehpour) [inferred]
        • (dreamliner,fuselage,salehpour) [inferred]
        • (dreamliner,fuselage) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • "It's clear that standard is no longer sufficient, and any data provided by Boeing should be validated by independent experts and the F.A.A. before it is taken at face value.". . Mr. Salehpour is scheduled to testify on Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's investigations subcommittee ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (salehpour,experts)
        • (salehpour,validated)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • before it is taken at face value.". . Mr. Salehpour is scheduled to testify on Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's investigations subcommittee. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (salehpour,governmental_affairs_committee)
        • (salehpour,senate_homeland_security)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Salehpour's claims instantly created another public-relations problem for Boeing, which has been facing intense scrutiny over its manufacturing practices after a panel came off a 737 Max during an Alaska Airlines flight in January ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (salehpour,manufacturing)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • . Mr. Salehpour said that the gaps where sections of the Dreamliner's fuselage were fastened together did not always meet Boeing's specifications, something that he said could weaken the aircraft over time ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (salehpour,fuselage)
        • (salehpour,fastened)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • "It's clear that standard is no longer sufficient, and any data provided by Boeing should be validated by independent experts and the F.A.A. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (safety,validated)
        • (safety,experts)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Separately that day, the Senate Commerce Committee is planning to hold a hearing with experts who were involved in producing a recent F.A.A. report that faulted Boeing's safety culture. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (safety,experts)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Boeing Defends Safety of 787 Dreamliner After Whistle-Blower's Claims. . After a Boeing engineer went public with safety concerns, the company invited reporters to its South Carolina factory and top engineers vouched for the plane. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (safety,south_carolina)
        • (safety,company)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Separately that day, the Senate Commerce Committee is planning to hold a hearing with experts who were involved in producing a recent F.A.A ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (safety,senate_commerce_committee)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • After a Boeing engineer went public with safety concerns, the company invited reporters to its South Carolina factory and top engineers vouched for the plane. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (safety,factory)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Boeing Defends Safety of 787 Dreamliner After Whistle-Blower's Claims. . After a Boeing engineer went public with safety concerns, the company invited reporters to its South Carolina factory and top engineers vouched for the plane ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (safety,engineer)