Reply #37: FAA inspects Boeing factories after shavings found in 767 fuel tank [View All]

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2014883185_boeingfaa27.html

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Monday sent a team of safety inspectors into Boeing's Renton and Everett assembly plants to conduct a special review of its manufacturing procedures.

The move follows the discovery of metal shavings inside the fuel tank of a new Japan Airlines (JAL) 767 passenger jet during ground maintenance earlier this month.

The plane was delivered to JAL in early February and had flown 325 hours. The shavings are thought to be a result of the manufacturing process, likely debris from drilling rivets.

The FAA review, expected to last at least several days, will focus on Boeing's procedures for preventing what the industry calls FOD, or Foreign Object Debris, meaning any material or object that isn't supposed to be on the airplane when it leaves the factory.