A world-renowned aircraft structures expert John Hart Smith has told the Seattle Times and Airlineratings.com that the Boeing 787 is safe.
Responding to a Boeing whistleblower and engineer Sam Salehpour’s claim that small gaps in the 787 created when fuselage sections are joined could cause a catastrophic accident, Hart-Smith has said that “the gaps are too small to make that happen.”
“It’s not a safety issue.”
The Seattle Times, Dominic Gates explains the issue thus:
“These gaps are not along the circumference of the join but inside the aircraft, between the splice plate and the skin of the fuselage.
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Source:: AirlineRatings.Com