Boeing's Nightmareliner strikes again - Page 2

Skybird · 10-15-13, 09:08 AM

German media have started to report - by reference to Indian newspapers - that the 787 again made healdines, a plane of this type lost panels on its belly and flew 2000 km with an open mainframe that way. Neither passengers nor the cockpit noted it. The affected airline was Air India. A replacement was flown to Bangalore, where the plane was grounded, and was build in. The passengers then continued the trip with 9 hours of delay.

http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/articl...-im-Rumpf.html

English news will follow, I'm sure.

Maybe no major issue this time, still: another blow to the already massively degraded reputation of the 787. Japanese airlines have just started a revolution against Boeing by giving the biggest sales order ever in Japanese history - to Airbus Industries, who before were almost excluded from the Japanese market for airliners and could only share 5% of the market with their A320 models. The sales order is about the direct Airbus rival to Boeing's dreamliner.

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Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,666 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Boeing's Nightmareliner strikes again German media have started to report - by reference to Indian newspapers - that the 787 again made healdines, a plane of this type lost panels on its belly and flew 2000 km with an open mainframe that way. Neither passengers nor the cockpit noted it. The affected airline was Air India. A replacement was flown to Bangalore, where the plane was grounded, and was build in. The passengers then continued the trip with 9 hours of delay. http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/articl...-im-Rumpf.html English news will follow, I'm sure. Maybe no major issue this time, still: another blow to the already massively degraded reputation of the 787. Japanese airlines have just started a revolution against Boeing by giving the biggest sales order ever in Japanese history - to Airbus Industries, who before were almost excluded from the Japanese market for airliners and could only share 5% of the market with their A320 models. The sales order is about the direct Airbus rival to Boeing's dreamliner. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.