The FAA has opened an investigation into Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner after the company disclosed that employees in South Carolina falsified inspection records on work done where the wings are joined to the fuselage body.
Boeing informed the Federal Aviation Administration in April that, despite records indicating completion of required inspections, workers had not performed some of those inspections to confirm adequate bonding and electrical grounding at the 787 wing-to-body join.
“The FAA is investigating whether Boeing completed the inspections and whether company employees may have falsified aircraft records,” the federal safety agency said via email.
Boeing said its engineers have established that this newly discovered lapse does not create “an immediate safety of flight issue.”
On a capsule that failed to deploy all three parachutes during its first abort test. And then also failed during its first real launch. Made it to orbit at least but it wasn’t able to dock with the ISS as planned due to failures, just deorbited instead. Third launch was originally scrubbed due to valve issues, and wasn’t tried again until 9 months later. Clearly wasn’t just a simple valve issue.
And that’s just the actual launch issues.
Oof. Welp, lemme make some popcorn…
Welp, scrubbed. Oxygen relief valve issue with the Centaur upper stage. Not actually a capsule issue this time… But that’s still a little bit concerning since the Centaur isn’t exactly a new rocket, it’s quite a mature vehicle. Issues like that should normally be caught before they have astronauts loaded onboard.
Did they forget to bolt the valve in? 😂
Meh, par for the Boeing course huh? At least the astronauts are safe.