Benjamin Smith, managing director of Air France-KLM, said on Friday, June 13 on Friday, June 13, “always trust” in Boeing 787, a model of the Air India company that crashed the previous day shortly after takeoff in the northwest of India, killing more than 265 people.
Benjamin Smith, whose companies operate 34 Boeing 787 (24 in KLM and 10 in Air France), noticed that “the information is quite limited” in the circumstances of the disaster.
The general director of Air France-KLM, which was expressed during the Paris Air forum, conferences organized in the Défense before the Bourget Show, also deplored a “great tragedy” and sent their thoughts “to the families” of the victims and Air India.
First accident in 14 years
Also speaking during this event, the executive president of Airbus also expressed in the name of his company his “condolences to the victims, to the families of the victims of the Air India flight.”
Before this clash, Boeing 787 had never experienced an air disaster of this magnitude. Nicknamed “Dreamliner”, the plane had entered service in 2011 and has become the largest big seat driver over the years with almost 2,600 orders, including 889 that still wait for delivery to date.
A few weeks before the accident, Boeing had even celebrated the milestone of the one billion passengers transported with its flagship plane, the light in the crisis of the manufacturer of US aircraft after the 737 Max setbacks and the delays in repeated delivery.
Source: BFM TV
