Boeing Deals With New Dreamliner Defect Amid Production Problems

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Source: The Wall Street Journal.

WSJ NEWS EXCLUSIVE | BUSINESS

Boeing Deals With New Dreamliner Defect Amid Production Problems

Aircraft maker, regulators scrutinize titanium parts on 787 Dreamliner; Boeing cites improvements

By Andrew Tangel
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Oct. 14, 2021 7:00 am ET

Boeing Co. is dealing with a new defect on its 787 Dreamliner, the latest in a series of production slip-ups that have delayed aircraft deliveries and drawn increased U.S. government scrutiny.

The new problem involves certain titanium parts that are weaker than they should be on 787s built over the past three years, people familiar with the matter said. The discovery is among other Dreamliner snafus that have left Boeing stuck with more than $25 billion of the jets in its inventory.

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[Farmer-Rick]

1. So how much of the plane was built in China?

Seems since Boeing moved major manufacturing of parts to China they have been having problems.

That deal they made with China made the CEOs multi millionaires but seems not to have done much for quality. But not to worry, the Chinese will soon far exceed Boeing's capabilities.

[Champp]

2. Republican-style management

"We're greedy-grabbing our Big Humping Huge Chunks of GriftyBucks. You taxpaying and fare-paying proles can have the shitty, sub-standard parts we profited from. Ha ha."
- Republican Tycoons

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. Which is not at all what's happening.

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They discovered the problem and stopped production until they could figure out what went wrong and determine how to make a correction.

Full disclosure: I do not directly own shares of BA, but I do own it indirectly through mutual funds.

[PSPS]

3. Self-crashing plane company has "slip-ups" and "snafus" according to the WSJ

[KS Toronado]

5. Anybody know which titanium part it is?

I can't get past their paywall.

[rickford66]

6. An important one

They don't add on unimportant ones.

[KS Toronado]

8. Your insight serves you well, it's something important alright to be in the news ....

Lot of wing spars are titanium, if they're the problem Boeing has a huge problem.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. Try accessing TWSJ. through your public library. NT

[KS Toronado]

9. Great idea, but I'm not going out around anti-maskers in my red town.

TWSJ article might not even know which part it is, plus I'm not that curious yet.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. On your computer. You don't have to go to the library.

Sign in with your card number and PIN. Just about every library "subscribes" to newspapers electronically. If the library is open today, give them a call. Then can guide you through the procedure.

TWSJ. has an exclusive on this story. It's not in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, at least not yet.

HTH

[KS Toronado]

12. Wow, thanks for the info, what will they think of next?

Lots of newspapers have paywalls, it'll be nice to access the 1 or 2 articles I'd like to read a week.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

13. Isn't that great? You can read the paper at 2 a.m. if you feel like doing that. NT

[KS Toronado]

14. That'll be fantastic, but not at 2 a.m.

more like 2 p.m.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

10. Boeing said the parts were provided Leonardo SpA, which bought the items from Italy-based [MPS].

The parts include fittings that help secure the floor beam in one fuselage section, as well as other fittings, spacers, brackets, and clips within other assemblies.