Boeing’s setbacks continue. The FAA announced on Monday it had launched an investigation into the plane maker to determine whether it carried out necessary checks on its iconic 787 Dreamliner and whether employees falsified documents.
The investigation is looking, in part, to determine whether Boeing properly performed required inspections regarding the wing-to-fuselage connection “on certain 787 Dreamliner aircraft,” the FAA said in an email. The agency says it is “investigating whether Boeing conducted inspections and whether company employees may have falsified documents related to the aircraft.”
The investigation was launched after Boeing told the agency “in April that it may not have conducted required inspections.” The planemaker “is re-inspecting all 787 aircraft still in production and must also develop a care plan for its in-service fleet,” the FAA adds. Since 2023, the 787 Dreamliner and 737 MAX have suffered a slew of production issues that have slowed the planemaker’s deliveries. This has forced several airlines to reschedule flights for 2024.
“There is no immediate safety issue”
Scott Stoker, the 787 program manager, emailed his employees at Boeing in South Carolina, where the planes are built, on April 29, telling them that “a teammate saw what appeared to be an anomaly in the fit test required at the wing body joint.” “He spoke to his manager, who brought this to the attention of senior management,” he added. “We quickly looked into the matter and learned that several individuals violated company policy by failing to complete the required test but recording the work as completed,” Scott Stoker wrote. He assured that “the engineering team (from Boeing) has assessed that this malfunction does not pose an immediate flight safety problem.”
Boeing, which was already struggling to recover from two crashes in 2018 and 2019, is in turmoil after a string of problems with the quality and safety of its planes lasting more than a year. A door stop on an Alaska Airlines plane was lost mid-flight on January 5th.
On April 17, four whistleblowers, including an engineer and former Boeing employees, testified before a US Senate investigative panel to prevent “serious problems” in the production of Boeing’s 737 MAX, 787 Dreamliner and 777. This prompted Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to announce he would step down. retire at the end of the year.
Source: Le Parisien
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