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Scott Stocker, head of the 787 program, wrote in an internal email that several workers failed to perform checks but recorded the work as completed.
The agency said that it was looking into whether Boeing employees had falsified records after the company skipped certain required checks.
Boeing said its engineers have determined that misconduct did not create ‘an immediate safety of flight issue’.
No planes have been taken out of service, but having to perform the test out of order on planes will slow the delivery of jets still being built.
The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it has opened a new investigation into a potential manufacturing quality lapse on Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner after Boeing admitted inspection records on work at