Mitsubishi aircraft quality control centre It plans to open it in a few months after pushing back delivery of passenger jet

Tokyo: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd’s aircraft unit, building Japan’s first passenger jet, will set up a quality assurance centre in Europe after pushing back the delivery of the aircraft by more than a year.

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp would open the centre in a couple of months and was considering locations including in Germany, where suppliers were based, president Teruaki Kawai said in an interview in Tokyo.