Boeing's 23-Year Certification Dodge Raises Safety Fears Across Fleet, Expert Warns

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Daryl Guberman, who disrupted a U.S. Department of Homeland Security subcommittee hearing in April 17, 2024 to expose Boeing's audit lapses, links the January 2024 Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 door plug blowout—along with 2018-2019 Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crashes—to Boeing's "trust the certificate" policy shift in 2002. Supplier bulletins from April and July that year required AS9100 accreditation by ANAB for all vendors and NADCAP for special processes like heat treatment, yet Boeing itself skipped third-party certification through 2026.

"Flow-down mandates looked strong on paper, but flow-up verification failed catastrophically," Guberman said. "Missing job packets, absent audits, unverified titanium—these aren't isolated errors but symptoms of an uncertified OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer- Boeing)  atop the chain."

NADCAP(National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program)  Certified Chinese Mill Shipped Fraudulent Titanium—Proving Long-Term Heat Treatment Risks,which has been brought forward many times by Daryl Guberman.

The Chinese supplier BAOTi, NADCAP certified for critical processes like heat treatment, welding, and non-destructive testing, still shipped fraudulent titanium with falsified mill test reports and heat-treat certifications to Boeing and Airbus via Spirit AeroSystems and Turkish Aerospace Industries. Spirit later discovered corrosion holes, prompting an FAA investigation into how counterfeit documentation bypassed safeguards.

"Even NADCAP certification failed here," Guberman said. "Boeing's 2002 shift from 'trust but verify' to 'trust the certificate' let fake paperwork flood the chain. Improperly heat-treated titanium—brittle now, cracking later—sits in 12,000+ commercial and 400+ military aircraft built 2002-2026. This isn't theoretical; IT's A FATIGUE TIME BOMB hidden by missing OEM oversight."

Elizabeth Lund's Claims Clashed with Plant Reality.

On June 27, 2024, Boeing Quality VP Elizabeth Lund told Reuters the company was "willing and prepared to become AS9100 certified," already "compliant to the standard," and "internally auditing as if certified." Guberman, spending nearly a month interviewing workers at Boeing's Everett, Renton, Auburn and Northfield facilities in October 2024, found otherwise.

"No evidence of internal auditing or AS9100 training—employees I spoke with had never heard of it," Guberman said. "Job packets tracking aircraft from first rivet to delivery were incomplete or archived without review. The FAA never dug into those archives."

AS9100 clauses like 4.4 (QMS control), 7.1.5 (measurement traceability), 8.4 (supplier oversight) and 10.2 (root cause analysis) demand independent audits that Boeing's self-confirmation couldn't fulfill, he argues.

Boeing Controlled the Rulebook It Dodged

Compounding the issue, Boeing held a seat on ANAB's Management Systems Accreditation Committee from 2014 to 2024—(can grant, suspend, and withdraw certification) the body accrediting AS9100 certifiers—while remaining uncertified itself. Guberman calls this a "direct conflict," enabling lax oversight of suppliers potentially shipping substandard titanium, as flagged in Reuters' prior counterfeit parts reporting.

"Insurers like AIG and Allianz, logistics firms like FedEx and UPS, investors including BlackRock—all priced risk on Boeing's false compliance halo," Guberman said. "Over 12,000 commercial and 400 military aircraft rolled out under this regime, with fatigue risks hidden for decades."

Broader Fallout Beyond 737 MAX

Guberman ties the pattern to counterfeit titanium from Chinese mills like BAOTi, slipping through unverified certificates post-2002. While suppliers held paper certifications, Boeing's lack of top-level accreditation undermined the chain, he contends—a hierarchical flaw distorting logistics, customs and insurance models.

"This wasn't theoretical," Guberman said. "Alaska 1282's door plug, Lion Air and Ethiopian crashes trace to systemic gaps the FAA audits but doesn't archive-check. Boeing didn't choose to opt out—AS9100 structure forbids it."

Boeing and ANAB declined immediate comment. Guberman, preparing to brief Airline attorneys, Investors, Logistics, Insurers & flying public directly at airports &  says full documentation—including 2002 bulletins, October 2024 onsight information at Everett, Auburn, Renton, Northfield and BAOTi NADCAP fraud evidence—is available for regulatory review.

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