Conner, CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, shows a document with Omiya, chairman of the Board of Mitsubishi...
Ray Conner (R), the CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, shows a memorandum of agreement document with Hideaki Omiya, chairman of the Board of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Japan Aircraft Development Corporation chairman, next to models of Boeing's 777X airplane, at their joint news conference in Tokyo June 12, 2014. Boeing Co said it will retain Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd as key partners in its commercial aircraft business, awarding them a 21 percent workshare of its latest jetliner, the 777X. Five Japanese companies will build fuselage sections, bulkheads, landing gear and center wing sections, and other parts for the aircraft that is slated to go into service at the end of the decade, Boeing said in a release on Thursday. REUTERS/Issei Kato (JAPAN - Tags: TRANSPORT SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)