This week Al Jazeera English is to broadcast a documentary on the safety of Boeing's 787 'Dreamliner' calling into question the engineering quality in the assembly factories. They were approached by a worker at the plant in Charleston, SC who was concerned about the aircraft.
The worker, speaking on condition of anonymity, says "with all the problems reported on the 787, there's 90 percent that's getting swept away".
He describes the troubles with the plane as "an iceberg". He claims only 10 percent of problems are visible to the flying public, with the rest "hushed up".
http://www.aljazeera.com/...
A list of the pre and post launch problems to March 2014 is listed here.
The worker took a hidden camera into the Charleston plant. Of 15 other workers asked at random, 10 said they would not fly in a Dreamliner. Among other concerns was the drug taking.
In the footage, he records one man saying: "It's all coke and painkillers" at the plant, adding, "you can get weed here, you can get some really good weed here".
Another complains that Boeing "don't drug test nobody", adding that "there's people that go out there on lunch and smoke one up".
Al Jazeera's investigative unit also uncovered an internal company memo that altered quality standards. An experienced engineer describes this as changing engineering principles to meet schedule at a time when the project was already 2 years delayed. A former president of Boeing's engineers' union SPEEA, Cynthia Cole had been avoiding flying the 787 but after seeing the memo who definitely not do so.
This is the trailer for the documentary. It will be shown on Al Jazeera English and AJ Arabic later this week. (I could not find show times for Al Jazeera America)