FAA to Review 787 Dreamliner as New Problems Arise

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Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliners keep right on flying, despite dangerous flaws and breakdowns. And the company continues to defend the construction quality of its new-age plane, even though every day seems to bring with it a new problem.

Now, All Nippon Airways has reported that a Dreamliner developed a crack in its cockpit windshield. The same carrier also found an oil leak in another 787. Based on recent incidents, the 787 is leaky. But the crack in the windshield should be of more concern, at least to the pilots.

The incidents have happened often enough, and are serious enough, that Boeing faces additional scrutiny from the U.S. government. According to The Wall Street Journal:

The Federal Aviation Administration, increasingly concerned about safety and reliability issues surrounding Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliner, on Friday plans to launch a top-priority review of the plane focusing on its electrical system and quality controls used in the manufacturing process.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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