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‘Shortcuts Everywhere’: How Boeing Favored Speed Over Quality
In February last year, a new Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max plane was on one of its first flights when an automated stabilizing system appeared to malfunction, forcing the pilots to make an emergency landing soon after they took off. Less than two ...
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Boeing C.E.O. to Step Down in Major Reshuffle at Embattled Plane Maker
The company’s chief executive, David Calhoun, said he would leave at the end of the year. Stan Deal, Boeing’s head of commercial planes, stepped down immediately.
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Boeing Criminal Inquiry Expands With Subpoenas and Grand Jury
The Justice Department, which is investigating the blowout of a panel on an Alaska Airlines flight, is using a recently convened grand jury in Seattle.
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Boeing Directs Airlines to Check 787 Cockpit Seats After Latam Incident
The sudden plunge of a Latam Airlines 787 Dreamliner this week might have been caused by a flight attendant hitting a switch on a cockpit seat.
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Boeing Whistleblower Who Raised Quality Concerns Is Found Dead
John Barnett had accused the plane manufacturer for retaliating against him after he flagged problems he saw at Boeing’s 787 factory in South Carolina.
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U.S. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry Into Boeing
The investigation is tied to an incident on an Alaska Airlines flight in early January. Boeing also told a Senate panel that it cannot find a record of the work done on the Alaska plane.
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N.T.S.B. Says Boeing Has Not Provided Key Information in 737 Max Inquiry
At a Senate hearing, the chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board complained that the plane maker had not been fully cooperative with the agency’s investigation.
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American Airlines Orders 260 Planes From Airbus, Boeing and Embraer
The order is the largest by the airline since 2011 and signals the company’s confidence in Boeing after a recent safety incident on a 737 Max plane.
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Boeing Faces Justice Dept. Review Over Max 9 Incident
The department is looking into whether the blowout of a door panel in January violated a 2021 settlement after two fatal plane crashes.
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Boeing’s Safety Culture Faulted by F.A.A. in New Report
The report by a group of experts was commissioned at the behest of Congress and in response to fatal crashes involving 737 Max jets in 2018 and 2019.
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