Explainer-What Is the Panel That Blew off a Boeing Plane in Mid-Air? More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Passenger oxygen masks hang from the roof next to a missing window and a portion of a side wall of an Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, which had been bound for Ontario, Calif...
The inflight blowout on an Alaska Airlines' plane on Friday night is prompting scrutiny of the aircraft involved, the Boeing 737 Max 9. The incident comes after other safety issues have been linked to Boeing's Max line of aircraft, heightening concerns about the jet's safety. Here's what ...
There have been a few other recent instances as well, including a Boeing 777-200that had a tire fall off shortly after takeoffin San Francisco on Thursday. The flight was re-routed to Los Angeles and landed without any injuries. A Boeing plane landing in Houston on Fridayran off the runwa...
To reduce the stress on airport paving, the rear undercarriage now has extra wheels – like the Boeing 777 – to spread the extra weight. Inside, some differences will be noticeable to passengers. The additional fuselage length is at the front of the aircraft, which means that the...
orders and deliveries of new passenger planes. Boeing’s latest crisis could make things worse. United CEO ScottKirbysays his airline will consider alternatives to the upcoming Max 10 because of uncertainty about when and whether the FAA will certify the plane, which is already years behind ...
It is the sixth-largest airport in the world by area. Chen Xiao/VCG via Getty Images Many air travelers have experienced the less-than-ideal scenario of needing to make a quick transfer to a connecting flight — only to discover that the next gate appears to be in a different county. ...
There’s an all-new Qantas plane taking to the skies from March 1 as the QantasLink Airbus A220 makes its long-awaited debut on the Melbourne-Canberra and Melbourne-Brisbane routes. A pair of A220s will take over from the Boeing 717 on selected flights between those capital cities, and mo...
B. Chin a didn't have a plane as large as C91before. C. It is the first homemade passenger plane D. It will come into service on Dec 9.2. What can we learn from Paragraph 3? A. The C919 will mainly be sold to the US and Europe. B. The C919 is better than the Boeing ...
Augmentation System) software. The system was designed to address stability concerns with the new aircraft, but insufficient testing and documentation led to two fatal crashes. This led to the global grounding of the plane and substantial reputational damage to Boeing—not to mention the loss of ...
Composed of qubits laid out in various configurations to allow for communication, quantum chips—also known as the quantum data plane—act as the brain of the quantum computer. As the core component in a quantum computer, a quantum processor contains the system’s physical qubits and the structu...