The aviation industry is bracing for another year of difficulties, as delivery delays at Boeing and supply chain problems are set to continue into 2025, say aviation consultants. Sunday marked one year since a door panel blew off a Boeing 737 Max 9 operated by Alaska Airlines, an event that reignited a firestorm of questions […]
The wreckage of Jeju Air Co. Flight 2216 at Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Korea, on Monday, Dec. 30, 2024. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boeing shares were down more than 3% in premarket trading Monday, after South Korea ordered an inspection of all B737-800 planes — the model involved in […]
Nearly 200 airlines use the 737-800, which makes up about 15 percent of the world’s fleet of aircraft.
BBC This has been a miserable year for Boeing. Not only has it struggled to cope with a safety and quality control crisis, it has lost billions of dollars following a strike by workers that paralysed production at two of its biggest factories. Even its space programme has been in trouble. Two astronauts were left […]
NASA has again postponed the return to Earth of Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, the astronauts stranded on the International Space Station after Boeing’s Starliner capsule malfunctioned in the middle of this year. The crew of the spacecraft arrived at the ISS in June. The objective was to test the Starliner’s comprehensive capabilities, including launch, […]
The compliance monitor is supposed to ensure that “Boeing implements a program designed to prevent and detect violations of US fraud laws,” O’Connor wrote. Failing to retain a monitor would violate Boeing’s probation, but O’Connor said that Boeing wouldn’t actually have to comply with the monitor’s recommendations. “[T]he plea agreement prohibits imposing as a condition […]
In a broadcast exclusive interview, FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker called the door-plug incident on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 last January a “failure” for Boeing. But he said the company is going through a “substantial reset” and has the resources to rebuild “in a much higher quality.” NBC News’ Lester Holt reports.
STORY: A judge has thrown out Boeing’s plea deal over two fatal crashes of its 737 MAX jets. The incidents killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019, and were traced to a design flaw. Relatives of the victims had called the firm’s agreement with the Department of Justice a “sweetheart” deal that failed to hold […]
Getty Images A Boeing plea deal intended to resolve a case related to two fatal crashes of its planes has been rejected by a US judge. The plane maker had originally agreed with the US government in July to plead guilty to one count of criminal fraud, face independent monitoring, and pay a $243m (£191m) […]
Nadia Milleron, whose daughter Samya Stumo, was killed in the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, holds a sign of crash victims behind Dennis Muilenburg, foreground, CEO of Boeing, during the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing in Hart Building on aviation safety and the future of the Boeing 737 MAX on Tuesday, October […]
