With several faults being found in one week alone, Boeing’s flagship Dreamliner airplane seems troubled and plagued by safety issues. Boeing have recently secured several military contracts, but they always have viewed the Dreamliner as the future of passenger aviation. However US regulators the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are ordering a review into the manufacture of the plane.
The plane is made by several different sub-contractors in different countries, with them being assembled in the US. However there will be no grounding of planes and they will operate as normal as the FAA do their review. The Dreamliner is subjected to stringent tests when it is developed and I have seen the incredible test they do on the wings, which entails the bending of the wings to an incredible extent (one that winds could never exert) but it is all part of the safety test.
Some problems recently have included an electrical fire, cracks in the cockpit windscreen, and issues with brakes and fuel spillages.
With orders starting to pick up, this is the last thing Boeing need as they were about to regain number one spot from their rivals Airbus.
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