News about Boeing

Quick TAC Take from myself on this newly unfolding news from Boeing and the disclosure that employees were falsifying 787 production test report. theaircurrent.com/dispatches/?entry=26176

Boeing shared a memo from 787 VP & GM Scott Stoker (dated April 29) to employees about the falsification of a wing-to-body join test during final assembly. FAA now investigating. (Emphasis Boeing's.) pic.twitter.com/gYn1GXRLgH

STORY UPDATED Boeing admits 787 employees in South Carolina falsified inspection records. The jetmaker says it's not an immediate safety of flight issue. The FAA has opened an investigation www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faa-opens-new-investigation-into-boeing-787-wing-to-body-join-work/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=article_inset_1.1

Breaking: The FAA has opened a new investigation into a potential manufacturing quality lapse on Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner and whether inspection records were falsified. www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faa-opens-new-investigation-into-boeing-787-wing-to-body-join-work/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=article_inset_1.1