Outgoing FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said Thursday that Boeing needs "a systemic fix to their production processes” at its 787 factory and until that happens FAA inspectors will sign off on each aircraft coming off the line. Dickson told reporters a series of quality control problems that stopped deliveries are up to Boeing to fix and until they do there will be FAA inspectors poring over the aircraft. He said the move "will increase the confidence we have in the stability of their processes, because we will actually be there looking at the results of each airplane as it comes off the line.”
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