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Boeing doesn’t build/manufacture engines. They buy them (to their spec’s) from Rolls Royce or GE or some other company.
“...the aircraft circulated several times...”
Can you say reverse engineering in Farsi?
In before the Boeing social media team starts yelling ‘pilot error’.
There are plenty of Boeing jets flying in and out of Iran daily and there’s a deal pending for Boeing to sell airplanes to Iran though I’m not sure if any have been delivered yet. Iran wouldn’t need to “reverse engineer” a norwegian airplane when they could just go look at one of the many Boeing airplanes sitting on the ramp at the Tehran airport.
As far as I know Norway has good relations with Iran so a divert into an Iranian airport shouldn’t be a problem. U.S. airlines do fly over Iran on a daily basis and I wouldn’t want one of them to have to divert into one of their airports, but a norwegian carrier shouldn’t have any problems. They might even have scheduled service into Iran anyway.
What a well-written article! Makes for quick reading.
This is an International incident which will require President to give permission to Boeing to send its engineers or parts to Iran. Additionally, anyone who goes to Iran is in jeopardy of not being eligible to enter the US and some of the passengers are ticketed from Dubai to Oslo to NY!