The changes, which were communicated at an all-employee meeting on March 7, come two months after a near-disaster on a new Boeing 737 Max operated by Alaska Airlines.
The incident is the latest involving Boeing’s top-selling jetliner, which was grounded worldwide in 2019 following the second of two fatal crashes that killed 346 people.
The accusation is that no documents exist at Boeing to explain how the airplane left its factory missing bolts that would have prevented the accident in the first place.
Former Boeing division Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc. is the supplier at the center of a spate of recent quality issues affecting the 737 Max airliner.
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