Army looks into eight-year quality-control gap in Apache helos

By Ellen Mitchell / January 13, 2016 at 4:07 PM
(Updated Friday, Jan. 15 at 11:45 a.m. to include a quote from Maj. Gen. Michael Lundy.) The Army is investigating a quality-control problem at the Apache production line that sources say goes back eight years, as the service hopes to sign a new contract with manufacturer Boeing this summer. Congressional sources said the problem comes down to a single employee at the company's Mesa, AZ, Apache plant who failed to properly perform 100 percent of the required inspections from...

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