U.S. authorities open investigation into Boeing over 787 Dreamliner

 The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced Monday that it has opened an investigation into Boeing to determine whether the U.S. aircraft giant performed required inspections on all of its 787 "Dreamliner" planes and whether company employees falsified related documents. The plane.

The agency said in an email obtained by Agence France-Presse that the investigation aims in particular to find out whether Boeing "conducted, as it should have done on certain 787 Dreamliner aircraft," the required inspections related to the intersection of the wings and the fuselage.

It added that it was "investigating whether Boeing conducted inspections and whether company employees falsified documents related to the airplane."

According to the letter, the administration opened this investigation after Boeing informed it "in April that it may not have performed the required inspections.

The Federal Aviation Administration said Boeing "must re-inspect all of its 787 airplanes still in production and also develop a plan to maintain the fleet in service."

The 787 Dreamliner and 737 Max models have suffered from numerous production issues since 2023, forcing Boeing to slow down deliveries of the two models.

This delay forced many airlines to change their flight schedules for 2024.

He added that this colleague "spoke to his manager, who brought this matter to the attention of senior management."

"We quickly investigated the matter and found that several individuals violated company policy by not performing a required test and instead recording the work as completed," Stocker said.

He added, "Boeing's engineering team concluded that this deficiency did not pose an immediate flight safety issue.

The investigation comes on top of a series of problems plaguing the company, which recently announced sweeping changes to its leadership following a near-disastrous accident in January when a door separated from the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9. in mid-flight.

This accident occurred after a Boeing 737 of the American company "Southwest", en route from Texas to Los Angeles, was forced to return to the airport after a fire broke out in its engine.