{"id":338710,"date":"2020-02-24T10:59:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T05:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=338710"},"modified":"2020-02-24T11:34:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T06:04:53","slug":"boeing-finds-debris-in-fuel-tanks-of-many-undelivered-737-max-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-finds-debris-in-fuel-tanks-of-many-undelivered-737-max-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing finds debris in fuel tanks of many undelivered 737 MAX jets"},"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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338710","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=338710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}