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Fri Oct 4, 2019, 02:57 PM Oct 2019

Congressional panel wants to interview Boeing whistleblower

A Congressional panel investigating the deadly crashes of two Boeing 737 MAX jets that killed 346 people wants to interview the engineer who filed a scathing internal ethics complaint alleging that company management blocked key safety improvements during the aircraft’s development due to cost concerns.

U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Peter DeFazio, in a statement Wednesday, referred to a Seattle Times report that first detailed engineer Curtis Ewbank’s allegations. He added the committee has yet to find Ewbank’s ethics complaint in documents Boeing so far has turned over in response to the panel’s request for internal records six months ago.

“These reports certainly add to my concern that production pressures may have impacted safety on the 737 MAX, which is exactly why it’s so critical we get to the bottom of this,” according to the statement from DeFazio, D-Ore. “On April 1st we asked Boeing for all complaints regarding the 737 MAX and though we’ve been poring over hundreds of thousands of pages of documents and emails from Boeing and FAA, we were not aware of Mr. Ewbank’s complaint.”

While it’s possible the committee “already has Mr. Ewbanks’ complaint in a tranche received from Boeing,” the panel now “wants Boeing to either supply the complaint for the first time, or point out in the documents where this complaint may be,” a committee spokeswoman said in an email Thursday. The panel also asked Boeing to make Ewbank available for an interview.

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