The Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner sits on the tarmac before a delivery ceremony at Singapore Airlines at the Boeing South Carolina plant in North Charleston, South Carolina, United States on March 25, 2018.
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Delivery of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliners will likely remain stalled until at least the end of October, as the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has rejected the company’s recent proposal to inspect them, it reported Saturday. the Wall Street Journal.
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Boeing met with the FAA on Aug. 2 to convince the agency to approve an inspection method that would speed up deliveries with specific controls rather than tail-to-tail demolitions, the newspaper said.
Regulators denounced the company’s internal disagreements over the size of the aircraft’s sample and reiterated that the group of Boeing employees acting as internal regulators must match the company’s proposals, he added. ‘report.
An FAA spokesman said the agency continues to work with Boeing and will not sign the inspections “until our security experts are satisfied.”
The Boeing 737 Max and 787 have been plagued by electrical defects and other problems since late last year and only resumed deliveries of the 787 in March after a five-month hiatus.
A Boeing spokesman said the company was committed to providing full transparency with regulators and working with the FAA through the rigorous process to resume 787 deliveries.