The Pentagon is investigating some Boeing employees who worked on Air Force One (Air Force One) transporting the US president without safety certificates, reports The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)citing their own sources familiar with the situation.
The interlocutors of the publication note that, according to preliminary data, 250 Boeing employees did not have or had expired safety certificates. At the same time, in one of the cases, the delay was regarding seven years.
At the same time, employees who did not have such a document should not have been allowed to work with presidential aircraft.
A Pentagon spokesman told WSJ reporters that the military department is investigating why Boeing failed to keep track of the fact that there was an update of the credentials needed to gain access to aircraft carrying the US president. Boeing declined to disclose how many of the company’s employees as a whole work on such aircraft. But the company itself notified the Pentagon that the problem really exists.
According to the WSJ, the operation, the problem did not affect the release schedule for new aircraft for Air Force One, the presidential aircraft.