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Re:Why Boeing's 787 Dreamliner was a nightmare waiting to ha... by wildranter on Friday January 18, 2013 @05:06PM (#5081341)
Even after all those delays and teething issues the Dreamliner was passed under a very compressed schedule, said Mann. "And there was an electrical failure and an emergency landing during the test-flight programme," he said. "That was blamed on a 'foreign object'."

The whole aircraft apparently. And there lies the solution to this riddle. Boeing went too far outsourcing engineering. Is Boeing trying to copy Airbus, and If so, why?

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