Boeing crash tear up 787's safety record

Copyright © HT Digital Streams Limit all rights reserved. The Boeing 787-8-Jet, who wore 242 people, crashed immediately after sending in from Ahmedabad Airport. (Reuters) Summary The accident provides a new blow to the beleaguered American aircraft maker, who has been captured by safety and production issues over the past year. The collapse of an Air India flight to London increases the safety record of one of Boeing’s best -selling jets, which handles a new blow to the beleaguered US aircraft manufacturer that has been captured by safety and production issues over the past year. The Boeing 787-8-Jet, who carried 242 people, stopped transferring its location less than a minute after leaving from an airport in western India on Thursday, according to Flight detect website FighTradar24. The aircraft reached a height of 625 feet before falling out of the sky shows the data. It is not yet clear what causes the plane to crash. Accidents can be caused by multiple factors, which are made about possible errors made by flight crews about manufacturing and design errors. “We are in contact with Air India regarding Flight 171 and are ready to support them. Our thoughts are with the passengers, crew, first responders and everyone affected,” Boeing said in a statement. The company’s share fell by almost 8% on Thursday. The incident comes at a critical moment for the Hobbled American Icon, which has been buffered by a succession of crises over the past few years and has lost billions of dollars due to the soil size and delays in production. Thursday’s accident could raise fresh questions about Boeing, just as it began to fall out of a high -profile incident early last year when a door plug on a recently delivered 737 Max during a flight. The incident led to the abundance of the CEO of the company and reconsidered the major investigation into its safety culture and production accidents in its factories. Since then, the jet manufacturer has suffered major financial losses and delays in the production as it unleashes the manufacturing mistakes and tries to satisfy the concern of the Federal Aviation Administration. The plane involved in Thursday’s accident was not a new delivery. The plane first employed in 2014, according to FighTradar24 records. Prior to Thursday’s accident, the 787, launched at the end of 2011, had one of the cleanest safety records in commercial aviation, with zero -recorded deaths, according to the Aviation Safety Network Database. The so -called Dreamliner is one of Boeing’s best -selling aircraft, with the company delivering nearly 1,200 of the Jets to customers so far. It got its name after a public name competition that provoked about half a million votes. The 787 still had a number of setbacks in the production. It suffered from early supply chain problems, and then batteries that led air safety regulators to ground the 787 fleet for a few months in 2013. Boeing also had to interrupt almost two years of aircraft deliveries due to quality problems. More recently, Boeing has increased 787 production and managers said that the manufacturing operations of the business have improved. This came after Boeing delayed production, strengthened employee training and improved the manufacturing processes. Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg, who took over in August, told employees that the company was on a fragile path to recovery and could not afford another mistake. Write to Benjamin Katz at ben.katz@wsj.com and Sharon Terlep at sharon.terlep@wsj.com. Catch all the business news, market news, news reports and latest news updates on Live Mint. Download the Mint News app to get daily market updates. More Topics #News Read Next Story