Boeing Commercial Group's launching of its 757-300 and 757-200; Details of orders placed for Boeing aircraft; Orders placed for Airbus Industrie aircraft; Airbus' short-term goal of launching the stretched-fuselage A340-600; Orders placed for McDonnell Douglas aircraft.Shifrin...
Plaintiff lawyer Johnson: Boeing has systemic issues that could endanger all passengers on Boeing aircraft. On the 20th of last month, three passengers sued Alaska Airlines and Boeing in court and demanded that Boeing bear punitive damages. The indictment mentions that due to a terrifying and life...
FILE - Boeing workers wave picket signs as they strike after union members voted to reject a contract offer near the company's factory in Everett, Washington, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) Boeing delivered less than half the number of commercial...
The leader of aerospace giant Boeing's defense division said Sunday that the company is still fighting through issues that have delayed the construction of two new Air Force One presidential aircraft. Boeing received a $3.9 billion contract in 2018 to build two new 747-8 aircraft for use a...
TheNational Transportation Safety Board’s report describesthe defect thatprompted immediate aircraft groundingsas the FAA scrambled to investigate a nightmarish January 5th Alaska Airlines flight. As reported byCNBC, it says “four bolts that prevent upward movement of the MED plug were missing before...
For his part, Wilmore said he didn't view the Starliner launch in the context of Boeing's widely reported aircraft issues. An artist's impression of a Starliner on final approach to the International Space Station.NASA "I don't think it has necessarily anything to do with Boeing and a fl...
"It is not acceptable that aircraft come out of Wichita, or aircraft get delivered from Seattle with anything wrong with those aircraft, and they need to be checking that all the bolts are secure, that all the fasteners are in the right place and the holes are in the right place." ...
Additionally, aircraft switch panels are often installed in locations with very tight clearance tolerances (a reality of the manufacturing engineering work involved in making design engineer's wishes into actual products). These tight tolerances coupled with electronic resistance can easily mak...
Boeing said the supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, used a "non-standard manufacturing process" during installation of fittings near the rear of some 737s. Aircraft parts must be produced and installed to meet exacting federal standards. Boeing said the situation is not an immediate safety issue and pl...
In both of the MAX crashes, the MCAS pointed the plane sharply downward based on a faulty sensor reading, hindering the pilots' effort to control the aircraft after takeoff, according to preliminary crash investigations. Muilenburg, who has repeatedly rejected suggestions of a design flaw in the...