There is alarm among workers at the Boeing Group factory in Everett, a city located in Washington State. The plant is considered among the largest production buildings in the world and is the heart of the Group's activities, where aircraft such as the B-747 and B-767 are built and where the B-787 Dreamliners are repaired. Unions accuse managers of harassing staff to keep them quiet about quality issues.

The US aircraft manufacturer is grappling with a product safety and quality crisis, which began after the plane crash that occurred on January 5, with the in-flight explosion of a door on a B-737 MAX 9 aircraft (registration N704AL) of the Alaska Airlines company. At that point the US manufacturer ended up in the eye of the storm, as did its supplier of aeronautical components Spirit AeroSystems.

"There's no offer in the world on God's green earth that would move me to be a pilot testing those planes made in South Carolina all the way down here, because when they get to our factory we tear them to pieces". Everett managers will "hound the technicians" to keep quiet about these problems, a mechanic revealed to the British newspaper "Guardian" on request of anonymity. 

On the same topic, see also the article published by AVIONEWS.