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A brand new Boeing whistleblower has predicted there are “other things hiding in the bushes” that will trigger future catastrophe, as security issues proceed to mount over the beleaguered plane producer.

Roy Irvin, who labored as a high quality investigator for Boeing for six years, stated the plane producer was “infested with ‘yes men’ and bean-counters”, and that the corporate would “tear down and rebuild” to make important progress.

Mr Irvin is one in every of a handful of staff, each previous and current, who’ve spoken out in latest months about their experiences and issues of dangerous office practices at Boeing. Two males have died since going public.

The producer has been below fireplace for months after a collection of high-profile security incidents, together with a door plug blowing out of a aircraft at 16,000 toes in January. The risk of comparable catastrophes occurring sooner or later shouldn’t be dominated out, Mr Irvin stated.

“I hope there’s no more but I feel there may be other things hiding in the bushes,” he informed The Independent. “The door blowout really hit home for me because I predicted this.”

He continued: “Things don’t get brought to anybody’s attention unless they’re found. There’s other things that probably haven’t been found yet.

“Quite a lot of a number of defects had been discovered that weren’t on any inspection job, any individual who simply occurred to see it received fortunate and located it.

“There’s probably many things still hiding, I’m afraid. I hope I’m wrong, but it’s very possible.”

In the wake of the in-air door blowout, federal authorities have launched a number of investigations into Boeing. Multiple whistleblowers have additionally come ahead to sound the alarm over the manufacturing course of and their issues for passenger security.

Mr Irvin informed The Independent that such issues had been “well known” throughout the firm and had been for a while. He, in addition to others, had been talking out internally for a few years and acquired “pushback”, he stated.

“The thing about working at Boeing is if you talk to the media, you’ll get fired, so that was definitely off the table,” he stated.

“At that point, I would escalate internally as much as possible and oftentimes I got pushed back.  But the media wouldn’t have had a way to know about any of this until people started talking publicly recently.

“I would have spoken up earlier if anybody had any questions.”

Mr Irvin echoed the sentiment of lawyer Brian Knowles, who’s representing a number of of the Boeing whistleblowers, who stated that the aim is to not “bring down” the corporate.

“I love the company. I loved working there,” he informed The Independent.

“There are so many great people that work there that don’t deserve the rap the company is getting, but the handful of bad actors seem to be the ones that cause the most damage.

“The place is infested with ‘yes-men’ and bean-counters. I’m sure that there’s a way to flush those people out.”

Earlier this week Boeing introduced that its leaders had met with the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on May 30, to current its complete Safety and Quality Plan. The new plan was “based on feedback from our employees, findings from FAA audits and recommendations from an FAA expert panel review,” the corporate stated.

Mr Irvin stays skeptical.

“I think they’re going to have to tear down and rebuild before they come back. It’s not gonna be just a simple plan that they presented to the FAA,” he informed The Independent.

He described the comparatively low quantity of great incidents at Boeing as “a miracle” however reiterated that there was “a very good chance” of future points.

“I hope I’m wrong and maybe I’m wrong about things that are hiding that weren’t seen. I sure hope to god I’m wrong. But there’s a very good chance of it.”

The Independent has contacted Boeing for remark about Mr Irvin’s remarks and claims.