What is going on with Boeing planes, and what does John Oliver have to do with it? It's been a turbulent few weeks for Boeing planes, as several aircraft have experienced alarming issues mid-flight — we'll get into that later — but the company started getting a lot of heat for its...
Boeing said Thursday that production and delivery of a "significant number" of its 737 Max planes could be delayed because of questions about a supplier's work on the fuselages. Boeing said the supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, used a "non-standard manufacturing process" during installation of fitti...
Last year, Boeing reported a problem with fittings on Max jets where the fuselage meets the vertical section of the tail. Boeing said its Wichita, Kansas-based supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, used a “non-standard manufacturing process” on some of the planes. Boeing and Spirit also said they...
Last year, Boeing reported a problem withfittings on Max jetswhere the fuselage meets the vertical section of the tail. Boeing said its Wichita, Kansas-based supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, used a “non-standard manufacturing process” on some of the planes. Boeing and...
Boeing 737 MAX Deliveries Shrink to Four Planes in April Due to Electrical Issue More Reuters Grounded Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are seen parked in an aerial photo at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, U.S. July 1, 2019. Picture taken July 1, 2019. REUTERS/...
"They needed to get the planes out." In February 2022, Paredes said Spirit bosses asked him to speed up his inspections by being less specific about where exactly he was finding issues with fuselages. Paredes emailed his managers, writing the request was "unethical" and put him...
dating back to the fatal crashes of two 737 Max planes in late 2018 and early 2019. Those crashes led to the resignation of Boeing’s then-CEO, as well as the company eventually agreeing to a$2.5 billion settlement with the DOJ, which had charged that Boeing employees had conspired to de...
Conceivedin 2006, it made its long delayed first flight in 2017. COMAC has now delivered six of the planes to customers, and has orders for over 1,000 more. C919于2006年提出构想,并于2017年完成了期待已久的首次飞行。截至目前,中国商飞已向客户交付了六架飞机,并收获了超过1000架的订单。
And that's what all of this is about. And we fully understand the gravity," he said, going on to ignore a follow-up from Vaughn in which she noted, "but one of your planes fell apart in the sky." As Crandall noted, Boeing has a very large manufacturing footprint in the United ...
The long-term damage to Boeing will not be clear until investigators complete their work. Carter Copeland of Melius Research estimates that the direct cost of the crash in terms of compensation and fixing faulty planes could be as little as $1bn. If a software problem caused the crash, it ...