In my former career, I traveled a lot, having done business on four continents; I spent a lot of time sealed in an aluminum tube traveling at hundreds of miles an hour, 30,000 feet in the air, surrounded by strangers. In those days I didn’t worry overly much about the specific airplanes. I reckoned they had a pretty good track record, and at that time, they did.
Of late, though, airplane manufacturer Boeing, which has an illustrious history of such great machines as the B-17 and the B-29, has suffered some problems with aircraft failing in flight. On Wednesday a group of whistleblowers, all former and current Boeing employees, offered some frankly shocking testimony to the Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
A Boeing engineer turned whistleblower told senators Wednesday that the company repeatedly sidelined and threatened him when he raised safety…
