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Air India Boeing 787 Windshield cracks during landing at Melbourne
In its latest series of mishaps, the windshield of a Air India Boeing Dreamliner cracked as the plane landed at Melbourne airport today though there was no threat to about 100 people on board, airline officials said. (www.indianexpress.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Sorry - spelling a bit off at this hour - should be 'country' and not county!
The windshield is made in China?? Now I know I won't get on the plane even tho I love Boeings. Anything made in China is suspect as well the the county opeerating and possibly - just possibly - maintaining it.
Just about everything is made somewhere else these days, whether here or overseas and sent to an assembly point. Even the bus is made in different countries and is only assembled in one place.
Understandable, but they should at least be made in a country with reliable workers and skillful technology, neither of which seem to be available in China except what is either stolen from the internet by hacking and then the end result is not always good. Witness the high speed train crash in China and the terrible quality of the metropolitan trains sold to other countries..
Any item manufactured without quality control can be flawed, whether China or here. There are probably windscreens for other models come from there, both Boeing and probably Airbus as well. Windscreens crack on a regular basis . I doubt that any website on which you book a ticket can give you that information. If you are that adamant about not flying on something with a Chinese part in it, you will be groundbound for awhile.
Either there are too many teeth !
Or too many problems !
Kindly check out the following two links
Snags clip wings of Maharaja’s Dreamliners
Air India Is Buying 27 B-787s But Regular Glitches Are Coming In Way Of Image Building
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=CAP&showST=true&login=default&pub=TOI&Enter=true&Skin=TOINEW
and
Fault in brakes, AI plane lands at IGI
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=CAP/2013/11/06&PageLabel=7&EntityId=Ar00704&ViewMode=HTML
Too many teeth or too many troubles ? Please decide !
:-)