Faa Completes Boeing Inspections

Federal investigators completed an inspection of Boeing Co. assembly procedures after 20 company 737s were found with loose or missing fasteners on the tail section.

The investigators want to determine whether the fasteners were improperly installed.

This week two teams of FAA inspectors looked at Boeing’s quality-control programs at aircraft manufacturing plants in Renton, Washington, and Wichita, Kansas, to determine whether production problems were behind the December crash of a Singapore Airlines Ltd. 737 in Indonesia.

It will be a few weeks before the analysis of the findings is complete and the agency has any conclusions, an FAA spokesman said.