The Globe and Mail reports in its Thursday edition that a Boeing engineer has gone public with safety concerns about the company's 787 Dreamliner, telling a U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday that he was concerned that shortcuts the company was taking would eventually lead to a crash if they continued unchecked. A New York Times dispatch to The Globe says that the engineer, Sam Salehpour, testified that in an attempt to address bottlenecks, Boeing introduced production shortcuts with the potential to lead to planes breaking apart during flights. Mr. Salehpour said that the company was knowingly putting out defective planes and that he was punished by his superiors for raising his concerns. "I have analyzed Boeing's own data to conclude that the company is taking manufacturing shortcuts on the 787 program that could significantly reduce the airplane's safety," Mr. Salehpour said. "Details that are the size of a human hair can be a matter of life and death." Mr. Salehpour, who has been at Boeing for more than a decade, said the problems resulted from changes in how sections of the Dreamliner were fastened together during the manufacturing process. Boeing has continued to express confidence in the plane and its safety.