Meanwhile, on the production side, one veteran employee on the 787 said he's witnessing "the perfect storm of manufacturing hell."
The global supply chain is at a standstill, and outside the Everett factory the rows of partly finished jets will take many months to complete.
To deliver the 20 Dreamliners built since the six flight-test planes, mechanics will have to complete more than 100,000 tasks.
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