Reports originating in Riyadh quote Boeings president and CEO,Jim Albaugh,as saying that “immature technology ” was behind the 7877 Dream liners delay, a project almost three years behind schedule.

“Some of the technology was not as mature as it should have been and we put a global supply chain together without thinking through some of the consequences,” Albaugh said at a forum in the Saudi capital. “When you put immature technology in your supply chain and don’t supply adequate oversight, you have issues and that is what we had,” he added at the annual Global Competitiveness Forum.

But he expressed confidence in the aircraft even if production was nearly three years behind schedule.”It is going to be a magnificent airplane and will be 20 % more efficient than the airplanes it is replacing,” he said.

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