Air India engineer taking blame for 787 issue
Oct 18, 2013, 6:51 AM | Updated: 7:19 am
It appears Boeing isn’t to blame for a large panel falling off an Air India 787 this week.
An India newspaper reports an Air India maintenance engineer has been suspended for likely causing the problem.
The airline says the engineer was the last person to handle the panel and likely forgot to screw it back into place.
Air India says the 4-by-8 foot panel came off when the plane landed in Delhi, not while the plane was in flight.
The pilots apparently didn’t know the panel had fallen off until it was spotted on the runway.
