The 737 Max remained in service for a day after the airline’s engineers, concerned about warning lights, scheduled it to come in for maintenance. During that period, a door plug came off in flight.
Category: National Transportation Safety Board
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Boeing Subject of Criminal Inquiry by DOJ
The investigation is tied to a near-catastrophic incident involving an Alaska Airlines flight in early January.
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NTSB Says Boeing Has Not Provided Key Information in 737 Max Inquiry
The National Transportation Safety Board is trying to get the plane maker to turn over documentation and provide the names of employees, the safety board’s chairwoman told a Senate committee.
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Boeing in Talks to Buy Spirit AeroSystems, a Struggling Supplier
Under pressure to improve safety, Boeing may reassume ownership of Spirit, which makes the bodies of the troubled 737 Max planes.
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Alaska Airlines 737 May Have Left Boeing Factory Missing Bolts, N.T.S.B. Says
A photo indicates that bolts in a fuselage panel had been removed at a Boeing factory and not replaced, the National Transportation Safety Board said.
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FAA Chief Plans to Pledge ‘More Boots on the Ground’ at Plane Factories
Mike Whitaker, who leads the Federal Aviation Administration, is set to testify before House lawmakers as Boeing faces another crisis involving a 737 Max jet.
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Boeing Suspends Financial Outlook as It Focuses on Safety
The manufacturer is under pressure to improve quality control after a panel blew off a 737 Max 9 plane during an Alaska Airlines flight this month.
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Boeing Faces Tricky Balance Between Safety and Financial Performance
The company is under pressure to show regulators and customers that it takes safety seriously and to reassure investors about its financial outlook.
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Boeing Reinstalled Panel That Later Blew Out of 737 Max Jet
Employees at its Washington State factory are said to have removed the door plug for further work before the plane was delivered to Alaska Airlines.
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FAA Tells Airlines to Check Door Plugs on Boeing 737-900ER
The aviation agency issued a safety alert recommending that airlines inspect door plugs on a Boeing 737 plane that has the same design as the 737 Max 9.
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F.A.A. Investigating Whether Boeing 737 Max 9 Conformed to Approved Design
Regulators are examining whether Boeing complied with safety rules on a plane that lost a fuselage panel while in flight last week.
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Cockpit Recording’s Erasure Hampers Boeing 737 Max 9 Investigation
Cockpit voice recorders in the U.S. start rerecording every two hours, a limit that the National Transportation Safety Board says should be extended to 25 hours.