What’s happened?
One difficulty after another is besetting Boeing, the world’s second-biggest maker of commercial aircraft, which has been hit in recent months by a succession of safety scares and damaging claims from whistleblowers. This week in the US the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) announced a fresh investigation into Boeing’s safety culture after it confessed it may have failed to conduct legally required inspections involving the wings of some 787 Dreamliners. It’s just the latest in a series of reputational blows for the firm this year.
What else has gone wrong?
On 5 January,
