Boeing Dreamliner GE Engine Probed After Jet Spews Debris
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Boeing Co., General Electric Co. and U.S. officials are looking into a malfunction that spewed metal debris from a GE engine on a 787 Dreamliner and caused an airport grass fire in South Carolina.
Material was ejected from the back of the engine during preflight testing, Rick Kennedy, a GE spokesman, said yesterday. Julie O’Donnell, a Boeing spokeswoman, declined to comment, saying the July 28 mishap at the Charleston, South Carolina, airport was still under investigation.