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Boeing bosses forced workers into ‘a jail’ after an investigation into a door plug that later blew off an Alaska Airlines jet was launched, whistleblowers have claimed.
Seattle-area employees told the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) about being regularly pushed to continue production despite a ‘garbage safety culture’.
Federal investigators probing Boeing were told that employees were reassigned after the investigation started to what was described as ‘literally in a jail, in a cage’.
While an employee that specializes in removing and reinstalling door plugs described the safety culture as ‘garbage, nobody’s accountable’.
Citing persistent debris and tools strewn across the factory, the anonymous worker said: ‘Here, it’s just push-push-push, push-push-push, you know.’
The revelations came as part of a two-day hearing led by the NTSB into concerns around the embattled aviation firm.