New episode in the dark streak for Boeing, after several cases of doors torn off in mid-flight and burst wheels. The public prosecutor’s office in Brindisi, in southern Italy, has just completed an investigation into non-compliant parts delivered to Leonardo-Aerostrutture, a company building part of the fuselage of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane, Italian media wrote on Saturday .
Contacted by AFP, the Brindisi public prosecutor’s office did not respond. According to Italian media, seven people and two subcontracting companies for Leonardo-Aerostrutture are targeted by this investigation relating to parts of certain sections of the fuselage of the aircraft “made with pure titanium instead of the titanium alloy planned “.
“Device security risks”
The aluminum alloys used would also not comply with the specifications, according to the same source, “thus leading to significant savings on the purchase of raw materials” on the part of these two companies, writes the AGI agency. . The use of these parts resulted in the construction of parts of the fuselage “with significantly lower static and stress resistance characteristics, having consequences for transport safety”, according to the site of the Corriere della Sera.
These “non-compliant parts could, in the long term, create risks for the safety of the aircraft, forcing the American company to launch an extraordinary handling campaign targeting the planes concerned,” according to the website. The Republic.
