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bahrbearian

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12. Not just Charleston ,all of the oversea vendors failed on the 787

Reply to n2doc (Reply #11)

Tue Nov 12, 2013, 10:23 AM

Nov 2013

They had to bring lots of the work home . Italy got to keep their failed tail section production because they paid for the massive tool they needed to build it, Boeing is still trying to figure out how to get that work back.

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