FAA opens new Boeing investigation after company admits it may have skipped some 787 inspections
Christian Brueckner in court for trial
US regulators have opened a new investigation into Boeing after the company admitted that it may have missed some inspections of its 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Monday that the it would look into whether the beleagured aerospace firm had completed the required inspections “and whether company employees may have falsified aircraft records”, according to The Wall Street Journal.
It said the company had notified it last month that some of its employees may have skipped proper examinations of electrical safeguards in the joins between the wings and the fuselage.
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