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Boeing Chinook Line Rolls As DCIS Investigates

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Friday, May 16th, 2008

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By Ann Roosevelt Boeing [BA] Rotorcraft Systems in Philadelphia yesterday said operations resumed on the CH-47F Chinook helicopter production line the same day, as the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) continued to investigate damage to two helicopters. Production May 13 was temporarily halted to facilitate an investigation of what DCIS termed "vandalism" found on two aircraft and an inspection of the aircraft in the Boeing facility, (Defense Daily, May 15). "All we can say the damage was done intentionally," Ken…

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