Tag Archives: Boeing

Trio Of Top Boeing Execs To Exit Amid Safety Scandal

CNBC reports: Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will step down at the end of 2024 in part of a broad management shakeup for the embattled aerospace giant. Chairman of the board Larry Kellner is also resigning and will leave the board at Boeing’s annual meeting in May. He has been replaced as chair by Steve Mollenkopf, who has been a Boeing …

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FBI Sends Letter To Passengers On Infamous Alaska Airlines Flight: “You Are A Possible Victim Of A Crime”

The New York Times reports: Passengers aboard an Alaska Airlines plane that made an emergency landing after a fuselage panel blew off this year have started to receive letters from the F.B.I. identifying them as possible victims of a crime. The letters are a sign that a criminal investigation the Justice Department has opened into Boeing, the manufacturer of the …

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“Cockpit Mishap” Blamed For Airliner’s Nosedive

The Insider reports: Monday’s Latam Airlines incident might have been caused by a flight attendant accidentally hitting a switch in the cockpit, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner was flying from Sydney to Auckland when it suddenly dropped. 50 people were treated by paramedics, of whom 12 were sent to the hospital, the New Zealand Herald reported. …

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DOJ Launches Probe Into Boeing Max Door Blowout

CBS News reports: The Justice Department is investigating the Jan. 5 Alaska Airlines door blowout and whether anything that led up to, or contributed to it, could affect the deferred prosecution agreement aircraft manufacturing giant Boeing entered into with the Justice Department in 2021, a person familiar with the investigation confirmed to CBS News. As part of the agreement, which …

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NTSB: Four Bolts Were Missing From Alaska Airlines Jet

USA Today reports: The National Transportation Safety Board issued a preliminary report into last month’s Alaska Airlines door plug blowout, saying evidence shows that four bolts were missing from the apparatus at the time of the incident. According to the NTSB, “two vertical movement arrestor bolts, two upper guide track bolts, forward lower hinge guide fitting, and forward lift assist …

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Boeing Finds New Issue With Unfinished Max Planes

Reuters reports: Boeing Co said on Sunday it will have to do more work on about 50 undelivered 737 MAX airplanes, potentially delaying some near-term deliveries, after its supplier Spirit AeroSystems discovered two mis-drilled holes on some fuselages. Boeing confirmed the findings in response to a Reuters query after industry sources said an “edge margin”, or spacing problem, had been …

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FAA Investigates After Delta Boeing Plane Loses Tire

ABC News reports: The FAA said Tuesday it will investigate after a tire under the front nose of a Delta Boeing 757 fell off one of the wheels and rolled down a nearby embankment. The incident occurred on Saturday around 11:15 a.m. local time at Georgia’s Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport while Delta Flight 982 was taxiing before takeoff to Bogota, …

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Alaska Airlines CEO: We Found “Many” Loose Bolts

NBC News reports: The CEO of Alaska Airlines said new, in-house inspections of the carrier’s Boeing 737 Max 9 planes in the wake of a near-disaster earlier this month revealed that “many” of the aircraft were found to have loose bolts. In an exclusive interview with NBC News senior correspondent Tom Costello, Alaska Airlines CEO Ben Minicucci discussed the findings …

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FAA Urges Inspections For Second Boeing Model

Business Insider reports: A second plane has been dragged into the Boeing 737 Max 9 saga as the Federal Aviation Administration recommended a new set of inspections on Sunday. The Boeing 737-900ER uses the same door-plug design as the Max 9, which has come under scrutiny since the Alaska Airlines blowout on January 5. The Max 9 remains grounded as …

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Ingraham Blames Diversity Quotas For Boeing Incident

“The left’s latest obsession with forcing this so-called diversity, inclusion standards on America, it’s shredding the standards of excellence in everything from business to academia, even in the military. Now, in some settings when DEI comes first and merit second, this may mean needless American deaths and a lot of them. Boeing recently bragged, not about being the best in …

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FAA Launches Investigation Into Boeing Max Safety

Reuters reports: The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is launching a formal investigation into the Boeing 737 MAX 9 after a cabin panel blew off an Alaska Airlines flight last week in mid-air, forcing an emergency landing, the regulator said on Thursday. The FAA on Saturday grounded 171 Boeing MAX jets with the same panel pending safety inspections. Most are operated …

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Tearful Boeing CEO Admits “Mistakes” After Incident

Bloomberg News reports: Boeing Co. Chief Executive Officer Dave Calhoun fought back tears as he said the planemaker must own up to its shortcomings as it grapples with a safety incident that has renewed questions over the quality of its manufacturing. “We’re going to approach this — No. 1 — acknowledging our mistake,” Calhoun told Boeing employees Tuesday during a …

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FAA Grounds Boeing Max Planes After Panel Blow Out

CNBC reports: The Federal Aviation Administration on Saturday ordered airlines to ground more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft for inspections, a day after after a panel on one blew out in the middle of an Alaska Airlines flight. The emergency airworthiness directive will affect planes worldwide and applies to U.S. airlines and carriers operating in U.S. territory. Images …

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Airline Grounds Planes After Window Panel Blows Out

ABC News reports: An Alaska Airlines flight returned to Portland, Oregon, soon after takeoff after it “experienced an incident,” prompting the airline to temporarily ground its Boeing 737-9 fleet, the airline said Friday. Six crew members and 171 passengers were on board Flight 1282 bound for Ontario, California, the airline said. The cabin became depressurized shortly after takeoff and the …

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Boeing CEO Regrets Air Force One Deal With Trump

Defense One reports: Boeing should have rejected then-President Donald Trump’s proposed terms to build two new Air Force One aircraft, the company’s CEO said Wednesday. Dave Calhoun spoke Wednesday on the company’s quarterly earnings call, just hours after Boeing disclosed that it has lost $660 million transforming two 747 airliners into flying White Houses. “Air Force One I’m just going …

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FAA Orders Inspections Of Some Boeing 777 Engines

Reuters reports: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Tuesday it was ordering immediate inspections of Boeing 777 planes with Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines before further flights after an engine failed on a United flight on Saturday. The engines are used on 128 older versions of the plane accounting for less than 10% of the more than 1,600 777s …

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United Grounds Boeing 777s After Engine Failure

CBS News reports: Federal aviation regulators are ordering United Airlines to step up inspections of all Boeing 777s equipped with the type of engine that suffered a catastrophic failure over Denver on Saturday. United said it is temporarily removing those aircraft from service. The announcements came a day after United Airlines Flight 328 had to make an emergency landing at …

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FAA Clears Boeing’s 737 Max To Resume Flying

Yahoo News reports: Boeing’s 737 Max is one large step closer to returning to American skies after being grounded for over a year and a half. The FAA has issued an order effectively clearing the 737 Max’s return to service once airlines follow key procedures. They’ll have to install Boeing’s updated software, use updated manuals and procedures, rework horizontal stabilizer …

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Ex-NASA Official Under Criminal Probe Over Boeing Bid

The Wall Street Journal reports: Federal prosecutors have opened a criminal probe into whether a senior NASA official improperly told a high-ranking Boeing executive about the status of a lunar-lander contract, spurring the company to revise its bid, according to people familiar with the investigation. The grand-jury investigation, which hasn’t been previously reported, is being led by the U.S. attorney’s …

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Small Number Of Manufacturers Resume Production

The Associated Press reports: Boeing and a small number of other manufacturers around the U.S. geared up Monday to resume production amid pressure from President Donald Trump to reopen the economy and resistance from governors who warn there is not enough testing yet to keep the coronavirus from rebounding. Boeing, one of the Pacific Northwest’s biggest employers, said it will …

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