FAP, May 25 (editor Xiaoxiang) as Mike Whitaker, director of the Federal Aviation Administration, said earlier this week: American aircraft manufacturer Boeing is dealing with safety issues.OnscratchObviously there is still a long way to go.

Boeing said in its annual Chief Aviation Safety Officer (CASO) report released on Friday, local time.OnscratchIn the first two months of 2024, the number of reports submitted by employees on product and service safety issues increased by more than 500 per cent over the same period last year.

Boeing said in its annual safety report that the sharp increase in the number of reports of safety and quality problems occurred after the explosion of the cabin panel of Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 on Jan. 5.

Boeing is encouraging its employees to reflect their safety and quality concerns to the company in a timely manner through internally established "Speak up" channels.

Boeing also trained more than 160000 employees on product safety, stressing the importance of boldly speaking out concerns or problems.

Earlier, Boeing Vice President Lisa Fahl said last month that "the number of feedback we have received on Speak up issues has exploded because we have been encouraging it." She estimated at the time that the reports submitted in January and February alone were equivalent to "a whole year of last year".

In February, a panel of experts reviewed Boeing's safety management process and found a "disconnect" between the top executives of the world's leading aircraft manufacturer and employees involved in its safety culture.

In response, Boeing Chief Aerospace Safety Officer Mike Delaney also said in the annual report, "our product safety requires our safety culture to be based on detailed aerospace knowledge, transparency and accountability." Our safety practice is Boeing's internal systems and structures to ensure that product safety comes first in everything we do and every decision we make. "

"our focus is on further improvements to ensure that our products and services are safe, compliant and consistent without discounting," Delaney said.

Since the beginning of this year, Boeing airliner accidents have been frequent, causing the company to fall into a serious crisis of public trust. Boeing has come under fire from regulators, lawmakers and airlines after a series of incidents exposed loopholes in the quality and safety of Boeing aircraft and led to the departure of its chairman, chief executive and head of its business division.

At the end of February, the FAA restricted Boeing's production of 737 MAX airliners and ordered Boeing to submit a comprehensive rectification plan within 90 days to "solve systemic quality control problems." the deadline for submission is next week.

Michael Whitaker, director of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), also said in an interview on Thursday that the FAA has been closely coordinating the reform plan with Boeing over the past 90 days, which is "not the end, but the starting point."there is still a long way to go to get Boeing back to the right path of building safe aircraft." In his view, Boeing needs to restore its product quality and safety system and safety culture, allowing employees to talk openly about the problems they find.