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Boeing Decides on 787 Fix, but Still Can’t Commit to Timetable
Boeing has identified a remedy to the 787 Dreamliner’s wing-to-side-of-body stress p

Boeing has identified a remedy to the 787 Dreamliner’s
wing-to-side-of-body stress problem the company revealed last month, but engineers haven’t yet decided on an approach to implementing the plan, chairman, president and CEO Jim McNerney said this morning during the company’s second-quarter earnings call.

As a result, almost a full month after the company announced that it had to again postpone first flight of the 787 Dreamliner due to a need to reinforce areas within the side-of-body sections of the aircraft, McNerney still wouldn’t pinpoint a probable time frame for first flight, last targeted for the end of the second quarter. He would say only that the company would unveil a new plan for first flight and certification schedules later this quarter.