Boeing Extends 787 Inspections To New Areas

By Guy Norris guy_norris@aviationweek.com
LOS ANGELES

Boeing’s audit of Alenia’s workmanship on 787 structures, launched in June in the wake of faults on the Italian-supplied horizontal stabilizers, has prompted additional checks within other areas of the same parts.

News of the most recent inspection was broken initially by Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Jim Albaugh at an analysts’ conference in New York. Describing them as new ...

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