Workers say Boeing planes built in SC arrive incomplete

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/02/05/3029014/workers-say-boeing-planes-built.html



Workers assemble Boeing 787 Dreamliners in the company’s assembly plant in North Charleston, S.C., in December. Puget Sound area workers say South Carolina planes often arrive incomplete.

Workers say Boeing planes built in SC arrive incomplete
By DOMINIC GATES
The Seattle Times
February 5, 2014

Since late last year, Boeing 787 Dreamliner fuselage sections from North Charleston, S.C., have arrived at the Everett final assembly line seriously incomplete with wiring and hydraulics lines missing, according to multiple sources in the factory.

The poorly done work out of Charleston threatens to undermine the company’s plans to deliver 10 Dreamliners a month and fulfill the much-delayed jet program’s original promise.

“It’s snowballing. The planes are getting worse out of Charleston,” said one senior Everett employee who oversees the production status of the airplanes.

Another Everett employee, a quality inspector, said the work out of Charleston had been very slowly getting better until late last year, but that “now the curve has gone the other way, big time.”