On January 5th, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft suddenly had its emergency hatch fall off shortly after takeoff, and the flight immediately returned for an emergency landing. Passengers Kyle Link, Amanda Strickland, and Kevin Guo sat near the cabin door. Two months had passed, and...
He leaves with the company under intense scrutiny from regulators and lawmakers since a door-plug panel blew off a brand-new Alaska Airlines Max jet in midflight on Jan. 5. Investigators say bolts that help keep the panel in place were missing after repair work at the Boeing factory. ...
Ortberg’s toughest job will be restoring Boeing’s reputation for quality, which was crushed after two 737 Max jets crashed less than five months apart in 2018 and 2019, killing 346 people, and took another big hit when a door plug blew off a Max during an Alaska Airlines flight in Janu...
这一数字约为过去20年间双头垄断企业所交付飞机数量的两倍。 Could this open the door to aviation’s twosome becoming a threesome? Rob Morris of Cirium, a consultancy, thinks “it is more a case of when, rather than if”. Yet the barriers to becoming a maker of large passenger planes remain...
Boeing has been in the news for all the wrong reasons after their planes were plagued with technical and mechanical difficulties, including adoor that flew off mid-flight, atire that fell off the landing gear, or the Boeing whistleblowerwho was found deadafter revealing key information about un...
Boeing has faced renewed scrutiny of the 737 MAX this year after a fuselage door plug blew out on the same model during an Alaska Airlines flight in January. A Boeing spokesperson said in an e-mail that the 757-200 aircraft that took...
Beleaguered Boeing executives came out of a three-hour meeting with the Federal Aviation Administration without permission to push the company’s 737 Max production rate back to the levels it reached before a door plug blew out of an Alaska Airlines flight on January 5, sending the aircraft...
Boeing’s decision to reintegrate Spirit came in the wake of the 5 January door-plug failure, as it faced immense regulatory and political pressure to finally fix its safety and quality problems. The plug blew out shortly after the Alaska 737 Max 9 took off from Portland, leaving...
An opening is seen in the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 Max on January 7, 2024 in Portland, Oregon. A door-sized section near the rear of the plane blew off 10 minutes after Flight 1282 took off from Portland on January 5.National Transportation Safety Board via Getty Image...
that the bolts that were supposed to keep a fuselage panel in place were never installed before the panel blew off an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 in a near-disastrous accident on Friday night.” They can win by making sure the bolts that hold the door plug on are actually installed...