{"id":338704,"date":"2020-02-24T10:30:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=338704"},"modified":"2020-02-24T11:20:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T05:50:26","slug":"boeing-finds-debris-in-fuel-tanks-of-many-undelivered-737-max-jets-inspected-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-finds-debris-in-fuel-tanks-of-many-undelivered-737-max-jets-inspected-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing finds debris in fuel tanks of many undelivered 737 MAX jets inspected so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing Co has found debris in the fuel tanks of dozens of undelivered 737 MAX jets amid ongoing inspections as the Chicago-based planemaker struggles to restore the trust of airlines and the wider public in the grounded fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing found debris in the fuel tanks of about 35 aircraft, a company spokesman confirmed on Friday. A person familiar with the matter told Reuters that more than 50% of the undelivered 737 MAX jets inspected thus far have had debris found in them.<\/p>\n<p>Several more planes are still awaiting inspection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are taking steps to make sure we eliminate FOD (foreign object debris) from any and all aircraft. This is unacceptable and won&#8217;t be tolerated on any Boeing aircraft when it&#8217;s delivered to the customer,&#8221; Boeing said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing Co has found debris in the fuel tanks of dozens of undelivered 737 MAX jets amid ongoing inspections as the Chicago-based planemaker struggles to restore the trust of airlines and the wider public in the grounded fleet. Boeing found debris in the fuel tanks of about 35 aircraft, a company spokesman confirmed on Friday. A person familiar with the matter told Reuters that more than 50% of the undelivered 737 MAX jets inspected thus far have had debris found in them. Several more planes are still awaiting inspection. &#8220;We are taking steps to make sure we eliminate FOD (foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}