The World - News from July 29, 1985

Cracks have been found in some Boeing 747 jumbo jets, and airlines using the aircraft have been warned by Boeing to check them, the London newspaper Mail on Sunday reported. The report said some cracks were found in the skin of one plane and others in an engine mounting, prompting Boeing to alert all the “70 airlines who fly the world’s 600-strong 747 fleet.” At Boeing headquarters in Seattle, spokesman John Wheeler said the company has issued a routine “service bulletin” after a four-inch crack was found in one of the floor beams of a 747. Wheeler called it “an isolated thing.”