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Boeing looked for flaws in its Dreamliner and couldn’t stop finding them
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Boeing Looked for Flaws in Its Dreamliner and Couldn’t Stop Finding Them
Under pressure from the FAA, the plane maker increased scrutiny of its manufacturing; ‘What happens when you take a microscope to anything?’
A Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
Apr. 27, 2022 9:54 am ET
For years, Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration handled 787 Dreamliner deliveries as though the perfect was the enemy of the good.
The FAA allowed the plane maker to deliver the wide-body jets with some minor flaws, so long as there was no immediate threat to safety. The expectation was that Boeing would fix such defects after the planes began carrying passengers, according to government officials and current and former Boeing executives.
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