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The claims were detailed in a June 11 complaint by Boeing inspector Sam Mohawk with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and were made public by a US Senate subcommittee on Tuesday
Salehpour, who according to his attorneys worked on the 787 from 2020 through early 2022, told reporters on Tuesday that the issues he described "may dramatically reduce the life of the plane"
A 737 Max agreement would mark an important breakthrough for Boeing, after it lost its market lead in China to arch-rival Airbus SE
Boeing said Tuesday that deliveries of its 787 Dreamliner have been halted again by another manufacturing issue, the latest in a string of setbacks affecting the two-aisle jet. The company said it is inspecting fittings on part of the tail called the horizontal stabilizer for a nonconforming condition. The inspections and repairs will affect near-term deliveries but won't alter the company's forecast of deliveries for the full year. Boeing did not say how many planes are affected by the new defect. Boeing said the flaw in the tail is not a safety issue and planes already in airline fleets can keep flying. The company said it notified the Federal Aviation Administration and airlines. The 787 and the 737 Max have both been plagued by production defects that have sporadically held up deliveries and left airlines without planes that they expected to have for the peak summer season. In April, Boeing found a problem with fittings on Max jets were the fuselage meets the vertical section o
Federal regulators said they are satisfied with changes Boeing has made in the production of its 787 Dreamliner passenger jet, clearing the way for the company to resume deliveries
Boeing Co received preliminary US regulatory clearance to restart deliveries of its 787 Dreamliner aircraft, paving the way for the end to a drought that drained cash and dented its reputation
The company did not name the supplier, nor did it identify the part, although a report said the defect involved certain titanium parts that are weaker than they should be
Federal Aviation Administration said that some undelivered Boeing 787 Dreamliners have a new manufacturing quality issue that manufacturer will fix before planes will be delivered
Boeing said the single site would improve operational efficiency as the US planemaker adjusts to the market downtown and positions for recovery
Inspections triggered by production flaws in Boeing's 787 jetliner are further slowing deliveries of the two-aisle planes, compounding Boeing's struggle to recover from the grounding of its 737 Max and the coronavirus pandemic. Boeing said Tuesday it was inspecting separate issues that have been found where rear sections of the 787 fuselage are joined together and on part of the tail called the horizontal stabilizer. The affected planes haven't been delivered to customers yet, and We expect these inspections to affect the timing of 787 deliveries in the near term, spokesman Peter Pedraza said in a statement. The Federal Aviation Administration said it is investigating the matter. It is too early to speculate about the nature or extent of any proposed Airworthiness Directives that might arise from the agency's investigation, said the spokesman, Lynn Lunsford, referring to potential safety orders that could be imposed on Boeing. The Chicago-based company, which builds planes in ...
The airline inducted one such plane in the fleet in February and one is expected to be delivered next week out of its order for six 787-900 planes
The airline said its flight UK705, operated using Dreamliner plane, departed from Delhi at 7.05 am on Thursday and arrived at Kolkata at 8.55 am
The statement informed that Vistara's new cabin products in Business, Premium Economy and Economy are designed to suit the preferences of today's global citizens
The 787-9 aircraft would be the first wide-body plane in Vistara's fleet
The new aircraft is the first of the six that Vistara has purchased from Boeing
Emirates tentatively ordered 40 Dreamliners in 2017
Hardest hit will be airlines flying Boeing's carbon-fiber airliners on trans-Pacific routes