Air India has taken delivery of its second 787 Dreamliner
and is scheduled to fly it away from Charleston International Airport
this afternoon, a Boeing spokesman has confirmed.
The
plane, one of two assembled in Everett, Wash. and flown to North
Charleston in early July, was officially delivered to the Indian
national carrier Tuesday, Wilson Chow, the spokesman, wrote in an email.
According to the flight-tracking website FlightAware, the jet is scheduled to leave for Frankfurt, Germany at around 3 p.m.
The
second 787 delivery and flyaway from Boeing South Carolina comes a week
and a half after the first. The first jet, which also was made in
Washington and then sat parked on the North Charleston flight line for
more than two months, was paid for and signed over on Sept. 6 and flew
to Frankfurt on Sept. 7. It continued on from there to New Delhi, India,
where it was welcomed with a water cannon ceremony.
Tuesday’s delivery comes amid a continuing investigation into the General Electric engines that power Air India’s Dreamliners.
Two
GEnx engines have failed this summer, including one in North
Charleston, and cracks were found in the drive shaft of a third engine.
That series of events led the National Transportation Safety Board on
Friday to urgently recommend regular inspections of all in-service GEnx
engines. Also on Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration said it
“will soon issue an emergency airworthiness directive,” but the FAA has
not yet taken any such action.
Follow the Air India 787’s flight from Charleston to Germany on FlightAware here: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AIC170
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