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This appears to be a very interesting story. The question is that is the engineer correct and 'blowing the whistle' on Boeing or is this an act of retribution on his former employers? What do you think?<br /><br /><b><font color="yellow">Fired engineer calls 787's plastic fuselage unsafe<br /><br />By Dominic Gates<br /><br />Seattle Times aerospace reporter<br /><br /><br />A former senior aerospace engineer at Boeing's Phantom Works research unit, fired last year under disputed circumstances, is going public with concerns that the new 787 Dreamliner is unsafe.<br /><br />Forty-six-year veteran Vince Weldon contends that in a crash landing that would be survivable in a metal airplane, the new jet's innovative composite plastic materials will shatter too easily and burn with toxic fumes. He backs up his views with e-mails from engineering colleagues at Boeing and claims the company isn't doing enough to test the plane's crashworthiness.............</font></b><br /><br />http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/boeingaerospace/2003889663_boeing180.html<br /><br />v s<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>