The Federal Aviation Administration has launched a comprehensive investigation into production and safety issues at Boeing following a series of alarming incidents involving their aircraft over the past year or more. They are also looking into claims being made by whistleblowers who were formerly employed as engineers and supervisors at the company. Boeing has reportedly been fully cooperating with the investigation, which is good to hear. But the deeper the FAA looks, the more issues they seem to be finding. The latest one involves the fleet of 777 class passenger jets and there is a reason that I described it as “potentially explosive” in the title. The planes reportedly have “poor electrical insulation” near the plane’s fuel tank, which could lead to sparking, potentially causing a fire or even an explosion. (NY Post)
Yet another fleet of Boeing airplanes was found to have a…
