During a 2003 board meeting, Mr. Mulally and Dreamliner program chief Mike Bair made a strong pitch to launch the 787project, recalls a former Boeing director.
"There are issues we have seen that we will need to work through and just like any new airplane program we work through those issues and we move on, " said Mike Sinnett, Boeing vice president and chief project engineer for the 787, during a conference call with reporters on Wednesday.