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The delay is needed to reinforce a section ofthe airplane’s officials say. Problems were founf during full-scale testing of the new airlinerlast week. “Consideratio n was given to a temporary solutionj that would allow us to fly as but we ultimately concluded that the righft thing wasto develop, design, test and incorporate a permanengt modification to the localized area requiring reinforcement,” said Scott president and CEO of Boeing Commercial in a written “Structural modifications like these are not uncommonb in the development of new and this is not an issue related to our choice of materialsz or the assembly and installation work of our team.
” Firstf flight and first delivery will be rescheduledx accordingly, but the company reportef it would be several weeks before the new datese are announced. In Boeing announced a two-quarter delay in the Dreamlinefr program that it attributed tolast fall’sd strike by the . The revises schedule had called for the first flight to happenh latethis quarter. The first delivery was to have been in the first quarterof 2010.
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