Air India crash puts spotlight on Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner safety and company's recent troubles
CBSN
The Air India plane crash on Thursday is putting a renewed spotlight on Boeing, the manufacturer of the 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft that crashed in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad with 242 passengers and crew on board.
Boeing says the 787-8 is the aviation industry's "best-selling passenger widebody of all time," carrying more than one billion passengers since it was first delivered to airlines in 2011.
The incident comes after a string of safety issues for Boeing, which has faced investigations and lawsuits for two crashes involving its 737 Max jetliners that killed a total of 346 people. Last month, the aircraft manufacturer reached a $1.1 billion deal with the Department of Justice that allows it to avoid prosecution for the crashes, which occurred in 2018 and 2019.
