SEATTLE—Boeing is eager to get back to the bargaining table to limit damage and reach a settlement after 30,000 workers walked off the job on Friday, as the strike added challenges to its turnaround. More than 30,000 International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) members who produce Boeing’s top-selling 737 MAX and other jets […]
Boeing factory workers say they were pressured to work too fast and asked to perform jobs that they weren’t qualified for, including opening and closing the door plug that later blew off an Alaska Airlines jet. Those accounts from inside the company were disclosed Tuesday, as federal investigators opened a two-day hearing into the blowout, […]
The Justice Department is accusing Boeing of violating a settlement in connection with deadly crashes involving its 737 Max models. NTD speaks to William E. Trachman, the general counsel at Mountain States Legal Foundation, who says if the government launches a criminal prosecution against the company, it would be a complicated undertaking. This is because […]
The U.S. Department of Justice determined on May 14 that Boeing violated a deferred prosecution agreement that allowed the aerospace company to evade criminal charges after two crashes of its 737 MAX jet that killed everyone on board. Justice Department prosecutors delivered the news to a federal judge on May 14 after hosting a closed-door […]
China’s aviation regulator said Tuesday that it had a meeting with Boeing last week. They talked about the 737 MAX’s return to China. The jet was grounded globally in 2019, including in China, and deliveries of new planes were suspended. That decision followed two fatal crashes that caused hundreds of deaths.
China is finally showing signs of easing its border entry rules since COVID-19 broke out. The details are yet to be announced. Boeing’s 737 MAX could be returning to China. Officials meet with the company years after the aircraft’s grounding and two deadly crashes. The Pentagon is pushing contractors to move supply chains out of […]
Boeing Co on Wednesday posted its first quarterly profit in almost two years as revived domestic travel fueled 737 MAX deliveries, and shares rose 5 percent despite festering U.S.-China relations and depressed long-haul travel. The 737 MAX is integral to Boeing’s financial recovery. The U.S. planemaker is scrambling to recoup billions of dollars in lost […]
Boeing Co. reported a wider than expected first-quarter loss on Wednesday, although revenue met Wall Street forecasts as the company generated cash by delivering more new airliners than it did a year ago. Boeing lost $561 million—or $537 million after accounting for a loss attributable to a noncontrolling interest—as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to hurt […]
Boeing on Friday asked some operators of its 737 MAX jet to fix a potential production issue related to an electrical power system in the aircraft, prompting Southwest Airlines to remove 30 MAX jets from its schedule. Boeing said in a statement that it wants 16 of its customers to check and verify “that a […]
Boeing employees raised doubts among themselves about the safety of the 737 Max, hid problems from federal regulators and ridiculed those responsible for designing and overseeing the jetliner, according to a damning batch of emails and text messages.
Boeing Co said Monday that it will reassign 3,000 workers to other jobs as it halts production of the grounded best-selling 737 MAX jet in mid-January. The announcement came after American Airlines Group Inc. and Mexico’s Aeromexico disclosed they were the latest carriers to reach settlements with Boeing over losses resulting from the grounding of […]
CHICAGO—Boeing Co. said on Dec. 16 that it will temporarily stop producing its grounded 737 Max jet starting in January as it struggles to get approval from regulators to put the plane back in the air. The Chicago-based company said production would halt at its plant with 12,000 employees in Renton, Washington, near Seattle. Boeing […]
Members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation questioned Boeing’s top executives on Oct. 29 regarding safety and oversight issues stemming from the two crashes of Boeing 737 MAX planes that killed 346 in 2018 and 2019. The senators focused on recently revealed 2016 communications of 737 MAX’s then-chief technical pilot, Mark Forkner, […]
