FAA probe into Boeing 787 unrelated to fuselage gaps, Seattle Times says

The FAA told the Seattle Times in an email that it opened an investigation into a potential manufacturing quality lapse on Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner after the company admitted that inspection records were falsified at the aircraft’s final assembly facility in South Carolina. “The FAA is investigating whether Boeing completed the inspections and whether company employees may have falsified aircraft records,” the federal safety agency said. The company said its engineers have established that the lapse does not present “an immediate safety of flight issue,” the Seattle Times says, adding that the new 787 quality concern is unrelated to the fuselage gaps described as unsafe in an April Congressional hearing.