The Boeing Co. has halted test flights of its 787 after smoke in the cabin forced a Dreamliner to make an emergency landing yesterday.
Boeing said this morning that it’s transferring data from the 787 involved in the incident in Texas back to Seattle “so that our experts can understand what happened prior to, during and after the event. This will take some time to accomplish,” the company said in a statement Wednesday.
The company’s shares dropped 3 percent in trading Wednesday.
Boeing is nearly three years behind schedule on its fuel-efficient Dreamliner. The company had expected to deliver its first 787 next February.
About that first delivery, analyst Scott Hamilton, with Leeham Co. noted that the “incident will be serious enough to cause a delay in the flight test program and most likely a new delay in first delivery, because the investigation into the cause of the first – even if it identifies the cause fairly quickly–may take long enough to effect a fix to induce new delays.”
Before the emergency landing of the second flight test 787 yesterday, some Dreamliner customers already were bracing for delays.
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