Honda recalls 772000 vehicles over defective air bag

Honda Motor is recalling 772,000 additional Honda and Acura vehicles in the US for defective front passenger seat air bag inflators. The defective air bag inflators were made by Japanese supplier, Takata Corporation. 

The vehicles, announced in a recall yesterday, by Honda in



the US, are part of an expanded recall of nearly 1.3 million vehicles, including some recalled earlier. 

Takata is at the center of a massive recall of inflators that can explode in a crash, injuring people by sending metal shrapnel into the passenger compartments.