The report added that Boeing told airlines on Thursday to inspect the cockpit seats on 787 ... caused a strong movement." One passenger told CNN that the Boeing 787 pilot said the plane's gauges ...

The movement of a pilot’s seat on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner may have been behind the aircraft’s sudden nosedive during a flight on Monday that caused the injury of at least 50 passengers ...

That bulletin calls for airlines to inspect 787 seat-track splice fittings using X-ray fluorescent-spectrometer or high-frequency eddy current techniques, “to determine the material”.

The Boeing 787-8 aircraft was carrying 245 passengers ... In the earlier case, investigators discovered that a pilot's seat had unexpectedly shifted forward, pressing into the plane's control ...

It is unclear what caused the jolt; United Airlines has said the cause was not severe turbulence, and that it is “working with aviation authorities in the US and Nigeria to understand the cause.” ...