Extra Four-Month Delay For Boeing 787

By Guy Norris

First deliveries of the delayed 787 may be pushed back until June or July 2011 as a result of last month’s electrical fire on ZA002, a report in French newspaper Les Echos claims.

The report says the news was relayed by Boeing executives to Air France officials at a delivery ceremony for one of the airline’s Boeing 777-300ERs yesterday at Everett, Wash. A broader suggestion in the report of a likely “mid-summer” ...

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