777 team mulls GE90 clearance change to speed BA deliveries

Engineers and managers from Boeing, General Electric and British Airways met throughout the day yesterday in Seattle to decide whether to open up blade-tip clearances on GE90s powering some of the carrier's 777 widebody twins, following a "stall event" earlier this month that has held up deliveries...

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