The Seattle Times said the fuselage of the test 777X split during the September test, damage that was worse than previously disclosed.
A Boeing spokesman told CNBC that the result occurred in the final minutes of the aircraft test and it won't impact its already-delayed delivery timeline of the wide-body planes. He added that the incident involved a depressurization of the fuselage and that it happened when the plane was bearing 99% of the test load.
"The test plane is a complete write-off, its fuselage skin ripped wide open just behind the wing," the Seattle Times wrote. Boeing does not anticipate that this incident will impact the timeline of the 777X's first flight or deliveries.Boeing said it still it expects to start delivering the planes in early 2021, later than the end of 2020 it was originally targeting, due to delays with the"As we'd said for some time, there had been significant risk to the late 2020 timeline," the company said in a statement.
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