Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the sudden rise of safety concerns filed by employees at Boeing is both “encouraging” and “concerning.”
Buttigieg appeared on Face the Nation for an interview that aired Sunday to respond to a 500% increase in employees submitting safety reports. These concerns were raised on the heels of two congressional hearings regarding the company.
“There’s an encouraging part and a concerning part. The encouraging part is we want Boeing and any producer in in the aviation space to have a culture of ‘if you see something say something.’ We wanna make sure those mechanisms for reporting work,” Buttigieg said. “If anything, we want you to err on the side of reporting, so that’s the encouraging part. The concerning part of courses at any of those issues are happening at all. And that’s why a Boeing is under a huge amount of…
