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People move through the Air India flight 171 disaster location in Ahmedabad, India, 2025. June 12th | Credit: Siddharaj Solanki / Bloomberg via Getty Images
The deadly India Flight 171 accident last week focused on the updated inspection of the aircraft manufacturer Boeing. This time it is 787 in the gaze of Dreamliner researchers. An accident that killed more than 270 people was the first deadly Dreamliner disaster since the model began to fly in 2011.
Experts have previously raised concerns about Dreamliner security problems, and the accident will occur just weeks after Boeing agreed with the payout of several billion dollars associated with other defective aircraft, 737 MAX. Now Dreamliner’s concerns can start to overshadow Max problems.
More Boeing problems
The Dreamliner is not completely new, as “the aircraft has been increased the subject of inspection after informers have been concerned about many years of production and quality problems,” said The New York Times. Despite these concerns, according to the Aviation Safety network, the plane was never involved in a fatal accident in 14 years when it was flying.
The cause of the Air India accident remains unclear, and “several factors, including bird strikes, pilot mistakes, production defects or improper care, can play an important role in aviation accidents,” The Times said. It may take “months or years” to determine the cause of the accident. Boeing is ready to support the investigation by the Bureau of Investigation of Indian Aircraft Investigation, ”said Kelly Ortberg, President of Boeing and CEO.
However, this is just the latest line of Boeing questions, which has been encountered by the public in recent years with safety incidents. A few weeks before the Air India disaster, Boeing agreed to pay a $ 1.1 billion agreement with the US Department of Justice to avoid prosecution of two accidents that killed 346 people together, “Max Max Jets, said The Guardian.
The latest Dreamliner problems have also noted. American Airlines has decided to justify the “new Premium Heavy Boeing 787-9” Dreamliner for serious care problems, “Aviation News Simple Flying reported two days before the Air India disaster. Another Dreamliner, which was “identical to those who crashed in India, made emergency landings this year less than a month ago,” the Telegraph said.
New questions
Dreamliner’s discussion, “Created at a critical moment when in recent years has caused a tricky American icon caused by consecutive crises, losing billions of dollars due to planes and production delays,” said the Wall Street Journal. The Air India disaster is likely to “raise new questions about Boeing as soon as the early start of a high -level incident starts to rise when a door plug was delivered on a recent 737 max.”
Boeing’s staff “watched the speed of the speed of the Dreamliner collected by the Boeing, so drilling debris remained in the interfaces and the deformation of the composite material,” the One Boeing engineer told CBS News. The engineer also claimed to have other models of problems. Although this was the first fatal accident involving Dreamliner, the plane “participated in previous investigations”.
The Air India disaster was also critically determined for Boeing’s business side as it happened “a few days before opening the Paris Air Exhibition, the main aviation exhibition in which Boeing and European competitors Airbus will show their aircraft and fight airline customer orders,” said The Associated Press. Boeing has already faced major losses in recent years and “announced $ 11.8 billion in $ 11.8 billion,” CBS said, increasing its total loss of $ 35 billion since 2019.