FAA looks at quality control on Boeing 787

The United States Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, is reviewing two potential quality control problems in the manufacture of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner that may go back almost 10 years.

Boeing said shims, or material used to fill empty spaces between parts and align them, weren't correctly sized in the rear fuselage of the plane. A second issue involved a failure to meet "skin flatness specifications" in some parts of the assembled aircraft.

The FAA could require additional inspections of about 900 of the approximately 1,000 Dreamliners delivered since 2011.