A whistleblower who worked as a quality manager for Spirit AeroSystems, a troubled Boeing supplier that builds the bulk of the 737 Max airplane, said fuselages regularly left the factory with serious defects.
“If quality mattered, I would still be at Spirit,” said Santiago Paredes, who for about a decade worked at the end of the production line at the Spirit AeroSystems factory in Wichita, Kansas, doing final inspections on 737 fuselages before they were shipped to Boeing.
“It was very rare for us to look at a job and not find any defects,” Paredes told CBS News in a report that aired Wednesday, adding he found hundreds of defects every day.
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