Cracks found on wings of 787 Dreamliners, Boeing says

Cracks found on wings of 787 Dreamliners, Boeing says Cracks found on wings of 787 Dreamliners, Boeing says | NJ.com Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, which the company flew into Newark International Airport during the plane's world tour in 2012, has run into more... More

Cracks found on wings of 787 Dreamliners, Boeing says Cracks found on wings of 787 Dreamliners, Boeing says | NJ.com Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, which the company flew into Newark International Airport during the plane's world tour in 2012, has run into more problems. Hairline fractures have appeared on the wings of at least 42 recently built jets, reports say. A spokesman for the company said the planes with damaged wings, which haven't yet been delivered from the manufacturer to buyers, will take between one and two weeks to fix. Seventeen of the 42 planes have already been fixed, the spokesman said, and will undergo tests before they're delivered. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi's Heavy Industries, brought the problem to Boeing's attention and blamed a "change in the manufacturing process." In December 2012, just months after the plane made its debut, a flight bound for Newark airport had to make an emergency landing in New Orleans because of a filed generator. Then in January Less