Just over five years ago, 346 people were killed in two plane crashes that happened five months apart in Indonesia and Ethiopia. Both were Boeing 737 Max 8 planes. Then in January 2024, a near catastrophe occurred when a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 plane at 16,000 feet, shortly after it took off from … Read more
Airplane fuselages bound for Boeing’s 737 Max production facility sit in storage at their top supplier, Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc, in Wichita, Kansas, U.S. December 17, 2019. Nick Oxford | Reuters Boeing is in talks to buy back Spirit AeroSystems, which makes fuselages for Boeing’s 737 Max jets, according to a person familiar with the … Read more
Boeing’s new 737 MAX-9 is pictured under construction at their production facility in Renton, Washington, Feb. 13, 2017. Jason Redmond | Reuters Boeing’s plan to get back on solid footing after a series of quality flaws in its best-selling jet suffered a near-disaster Friday when a plane panel blew out during an Alaska Airlines flight, … Read more
An worker works on the tail of a Boeing Co. Dreamliner 787 airplane on the manufacturing line on the firm’s closing meeting facility in North Charleston, South Carolina. Travis Dove | Bloomberg | Getty Pictures Boeing on Tuesday warned a couple of new defect on its 787 Dreamliner planes and that it’s going to delay … Read more