Posts Tagged ‘Boeing’
LOT Aborts 787 Flight After Computer Malfunction
A computer malfunction on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner forced LOT to abort a scheduled transatlantic flight from Warsaw late on Monday, the Polish airline said. In the latest in a series of operational problems that have dogg...
Boeing Sees No Bubble In 737 Market
Boeing said on Tuesday it sees no bubble in the market for 737s and that production could rise to 60 aircraft a month at the current factory in Renton, Washington, though production may not go that high. Beverly Wyse, Bo...
Japan 787 Battery Investigators Look At Latest Incident
Japanese investigators probing a lithium-ion battery meltdown on a Boeing 787 a year ago are looking at a battery that overheated on a Dreamliner in Tokyo this month to help unlock the cause of the earlier fire, an offic...
Lion Air Orders CFM Engines, Cancels 787s
Indonesia’s Lion Air said on Monday it had purchased CFM International engines worth USD$1.2 billion for 60 new Airbus A320s on order as the budget carrier goes on a shopping spree to boost capacity in Southeast As...
Boeing ‘Not Satisfied’ With 787 Reliability
The reliability of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner is improving but is still not satisfactory, Mike Fleming, Boeing’s vice president for 787 support and services said on Friday. The Dreamliner’s reliability rat...
FAA To Order Boeing 767 Safety Checks
The US FAA plans to order safety checks of more than 400 Boeing 767s because of elevator flight control surfaces that may jam and possibly cause some pilots to lose control of the aircraft, according to a report in The W...
