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Senior Boeing engineer and whistleblower Martin Bickeböller is set to leave the company after a decade of raising concerns over Boeing's oversight of supplier manufacturing. Bickeböller, who has been with Boeing for 37 years, has documented significant shortcomings in Boeing’s quality control management at suppliers responsible for major sections of the 787 Dreamliner. His complaints were filed internally and...

Boeing's latest attempt to send astronauts into space faced a setback due to a last-minute issue. Two NASA astronauts were secured in the Starliner capsule when the countdown was stopped at three minutes and 50 seconds by the computer system overseeing the final moments before liftoff. With insufficient time to diagnose the problem, the launch was aborted. Launch controllers are...