United, which has also expressed confidence in its growing fleet of Boeing 737 MAX planes, told Twitter users it operates a larger model of the Boeing 737 MAX, not the model that was involved in the Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air crashes. It also made a distinction between older and ne...
The FAA will detail software upgrades and training changes Boeing must make in order for it to resume commercial flights after a 20-month grounding, the longest in commercial aviation history The 737 MAX crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people within five months in 2018 and 2019 and...
US prosecutors on Thursday hit Boeing with $2.5 billion in fines, settling a criminal charge over claims the company defrauded regulators overseeing the 737 MAX, which was grounded worldwide following two deadly crashes.
A remarkable thing happened on American airplanes last year: For the first time since the beginning of commercial flight, there were no fatalities on any US airline anywhere in the world. This preliminary statistic from the Federal Aviation Administration is a powerful antidote to the public ...
Boeing ousts Kevin McAllister, the top executive of its commercial airplanes division. December 2019 Former chief executive,Dennis Muilenburg, leaves Boeingin the wake of the crashes. January 2020 Boeing is forced tosuspend production of the 737 MAX, its biggest assembly-line halt in more than ...
Boeing only recently resumed deliveries of the 737 MAX following a 20-month global grounding after two crashes killed 346 people. The MAX began returning to commercial service in late 2020, with airline travel still depressed due to the coronavirus pandemic. ...
The latest 737 MAX incident was the first major in-flight safety issue on a Boeing plane since two fatal 737 MAX crashes -- one in 2018 and one in 2019 -- led to a nearly two-year grounding of the aircraft. The FAA has described the January 5 near-miss as unacceptable, vowing a he...
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Despite this, the US was not the first country to see the type return to commercial service. This took place in Brazil, where low-cost carrierGOL flew the world's first post-recertification MAX flightson December 9th. Since the FAA's recertification, four US airlines have flown the MAX: ...
without Boeing, one of only two manufacturers of full-size commercial jets. The problems that Boeing has faced this year have created a domino effect of denying airlines the planes they had been counting on. That will likely mean fuller planes and higher fares for airline passengers around the...