Boeing warns new defect on 787 Dreamliners will slow deliveries

Boeing connected Tuesday warned astir a caller defect connected its 787 Dreamliner planes and that it volition hold deliveries of the wide-body aircraft, the manufacturer's latest accumulation issue.

"We are inspecting 787s successful our inventory for a nonconforming information related to a fitting connected the horizontal stabilizer," Boeing said successful a statement. "Airplanes recovered to person a nonconforming information volition beryllium reworked anterior to summons and delivery."

Boeing said the contented isn't related to formation information and that planes successful work tin proceed operating.

The occupation is the latest successful a spate of manufacturing issues connected Boeing planes that person slowed if not paused deliveries of definite craft outright, conscionable arsenic airlines are clamoring for caller planes to capitalize connected the question boom.

Boeing had paused deliveries of the planes for several weeks earlier this twelvemonth due to the fact that of a abstracted occupation connected a fuselage constituent connected definite 787s. The latest contented presently doesn't impact Boeing's full-year outlook for Dreamliner deliveries, the institution said. Boeing has estimated that it would present betwixt 70 and 80 of the planes this year.

Boeing shares slipped connected the quality and were down astir 2% successful day trading.