Top Highlights

• Federal authorities say they’re investigating Boeing after a whistleblower repeatedly raised concerns with two widebody jet models, and claimed the company retaliated against him.
• alleges that Boeing took shortcuts when manufacturing its 777 and 787 Dreamliner jets, and that the risks could become catastrophic as the airplanes age.
• His formal complaint to the Federal Aviation Administration, filed in January and made public on Tuesday, is not specific to the newer 737 Max jet that has been grounded twice by the Federal Aviation Administration.
• “I am doing this not because I want Boeing to fail, but because I want it to succeed and prevent crashes from happening,”
• The truth is Boeing can’t keep going the way it is. It needs to do a little bit better, I think.”