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Qatar Airways CEO launches thunderbolt at Boeing over 787 Dreamliner aircraft problems

London, United Kingdom - "Definitely we will demand compensation: we are not buying airplanes from them to put in a museum

In an interview released to "Bloomberg" in London, Qatar Airways chief executive officer Akbar al-Baker commented with harsh words the problem which forced the Qatari carrier to ground on of their Boeing 787 Dreamliner on December 9, because of a failure to a generator. It is a glitch with a strong similarity with the one which occurred to a United Airlines Dreamliner on December 4 which, during a...

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Rome, Italy, 12/14/2012 14:43
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