It was only last summer that Boeing resumed deliveries of the Dreamliner after a year-long hiatus. Now, a few months later, there are problems with the planes again, this time with the fuselage. The flight control authority calls for clarification.
The US aircraft manufacturer Boeing has again had to stop deliveries of its long-haul aircraft 787 Dreamliner. The reason for this are problems with a part of the fuselage, said the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The group must now carry out "additional analysis" for this part. Deliveries of the Dreamliner may not begin again until the FAA believes the problem has been "satisfactorily" resolved.
Boeing only started delivering the Dreamliner again in August last year after a break of more than a year due to production defects. The company first discovered manufacturing defects in some Dreamliners in late summer 2020, which led to other problems. According to the FAA, among other things, it was about a "manufacturing quality problem near the nose of certain 787 Dreamliners". The delivery of the machines was therefore stopped between November 2020 and March 2021 and then again from the end of May 2021.
In August last year, the company received the green light from the FAA to resume deliveries - now they have been stopped again. At the same time, a company spokeswoman emphasized that there were "no immediate safety or flight concerns" with the machines of the type currently flying worldwide.
Since its launch in 2004, Boeing has delivered more than 1,000 of the type. The problems with the Dreamliner slowed down the aircraft manufacturer's recovery from the economic impact of the corona pandemic and the massive problems with the 737 MAX after two plane crashes in 2018 and 2019.
