The US has opened a new inquiry into troubled jet firm Boeing, after the company told air safety regulators that it might not have properly inspected its 787 Dreamliner planes.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it would look into whether staff had falsified records.
It said Boeing was reinspecting all 787 jets still on the manufacturing line.
It said Boeing was reinspecting all 787 jets still on the manufacturing line.
Boeing did not comment.
Internally, it told staff last week that the “misconduct” had not created an “immediate safety of flight issue”, according to a message seen by BBC News.
“We quickly reviewed the matter and learned that several people had been violating company policies by not performing a required test, but recording the work as having been completed,” Scott Stocker, head of the Boeing 787 program, said in the email to staff.
The FAA said that Boeing had come forward “voluntarily” last month to warn that it “may not have completed” inspections required to confirm adequate electrical safeguards where the wings join the main body of certain of its 787 Dreamliners, a large jet often used on international flights.
“The FAA is investigating whether Boeing completed the inspections and whether company employees may have falsified aircraft records,” it said.
The US has opened a new inquiry into troubled jet firm Boeing, after the company told air safety regulators that it might not have properly inspected its 787 Dreamliner planes.
It said Boeing was reinspecting all 787 jets still on the manufacturing line.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it would look into whether staff had falsified records.
Boeing did not comment.
It said Boeing was reinspecting all 787 jets still on the manufacturing line.
It said Boeing was reinspecting all 787 jets still on the manufacturing line.
Boeing did not comment.
Internally, it told staff last week that the “misconduct” had not created an “immediate safety of flight issue”, according to a message seen by BBC News.
“We quickly reviewed the matter and learned that several people had been violating company policies by not performing a required test, but recording the work as having been completed,” Scott Stocker, head of the Boeing 787 program, said in the email to staff.
The FAA said that Boeing had come forward “voluntarily” last month to warn that it “may not have completed” inspections required to confirm adequate electrical safeguards where the wings join the main body of certain of its 787 Dreamliners, a large jet often used on international flights.
“The FAA is investigating whether Boeing completed the inspections and whether company employees may have falsified aircraft records,” it said.
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