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By  Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter The fuselage panel that blew off an Alaska Airlines jet earlier this month was removed for repair then reinstalled improperly by Boeing mechanics on the Renton final assembly line, a person familiar with the details of the work told The Seattle Times. If verified by the National Transportation

A Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 aircraft similar to the one that lost a nose wheel as it prepared to take off from the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Saturday.Credit…Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto, via Getty Images By Orlando Mayorquin A Boeing 757 plane operated by Delta Air Lines lost a nose wheel as it prepared to take

By  Andy Pasztor Special to The Seattle Times Probes of the recent Boeing 737 MAX cabin blowout must expand far beyond safety practices and manufacturing controls. Investigators should scrutinize persistent company failures over the past four decades to become more transparent and law-abiding. Before this month’s cabin blowout on an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 jet

By  Dominic Gates  Seattle Times aerospace reporter While Boeing’s leadership scrambled to contain its latest crisis — following the in-flight door plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 — top executives at Airbus confidently laid out the rival’s success in 2023 and its dominance of the commercial airliner business. The data on last year’s jet

By  The Seattle Times editorial board Boeing is in the region’s collective DNA. Even though the company decamped for Chicago in 2001 and is now headquartered in a corporate suburb of Washington, D.C., Boeing still has a special place in our consciousness that goes beyond its statewide workforce of about 60,000. Call it pride. Pride

Robert Reich Friends, My friend Harold Meyerson just wrote this for The American Prospect, and it’s so good and timely that I wanted to share it with you. In the wake of the midair blowout of a door on a Boeing 737 MAX 9 earlier this month, the lead that Airbus has taken over Boeing

The aftermath of the Alaska blowout reveals that the connection is slowly unraveling. By Benjamin Cassidy  January 17, 2024 IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH of the fuselage blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight earlier this month, Margaret O’Mara noticed something that would’ve once been unthinkable in Seattle. The University of Washington history professor observed that locals were correctly tying

News Provided By Washington State House Democrats January 17, 2024, 22:27 GMT OLYMPIA — Legislators, local elected officials, and community members gathered at a press conference Monday to demand economic and social justice for people living near Sea-Tac Airport. Speakers supported legislation (SB 5955/HB 2103) to direct a small portion of Port of Seattle revenue as

By  Robert Hodgman Special to The Seattle Times If you’ve traveled through Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in the last few months, you may have noticed it’s a bit more crowded than it has been in the recent past.  Post-pandemic air travel has already surpassed pre-pandemic levels and all indicators are air travel will continue to grow. 

DEFENDERS OF HIGHLINE FOREST MLK DAY – January 15, 2024 View this email in your browser Write us at info@defendersofhighlineforest.org The Defenders urge an outpouring of support starting tomorrow morning (Jan 16) for: GAME-CHANGING NEWLY-PROPOSED STATE LAW  Companion bills just introduced in Washington State’s legislature, HB 2103 and SB 5955, would require large Port districts to use tax funds to remediate