Manufacturing defects are creating hairline fractures on the wings of several dozen Boeing 787 Dreamliners, a problem that signals more headaches for the airplane manufacturer less than a year after safety regulators around the world grounded all of the 787s in operation over the risk of battery fires. The good news is that the problem so far is limited only to planes in various states of production and affect none of the 123 Dreamliner jets currently in operation around the globe. According to the Wall Street Journal, the cracks were discovered by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which Boeing contracted to manufacture
SOURCE: Righting Injustice › Wing fractures on dozens of Boeing 787 Dreamliners blamed on production error
