Boeing 737 MAX

2026-04-27
Government watchdog urges FAA to address Boeing Max engine issue

A Boeing 737 MAX 8 operated by Southwest Airlines flies over Ritzville, Washington, on July 16, 2021. (Travis Ness/The Seattle Times/TNS) By Lauren Rosenblatt Seattle Times The Federal Aviation Administration should do more to address safety risks from an engine feature on Boeing’s 737 Max that has twice filled planes with smoke, a government watchdog

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2024-08-25
Inside Boeing’s factory lapses that led to the Alaska Air blowout

By Dominic Gates and Paige Cornwell Seattle Times staff reporters The near-catastrophic midair blowout of a door-sized fuselage panel on an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 in January was caused by two distinct manufacturing errors by different crews on successive days last fall in Boeing’s assembly plant in Renton. The first manufacturing lapse occurred within

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Boeing, not Spirit, mis-installed piece that blew off Alaska MAX 9 jet, industry source says

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

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Boeing and U.S. aerospace set back by Alaska Airlines fuselage blowout

Jan. 14, 2024 at 6:00 am Updated Jan. 14, 2024 at 6:00 am By Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter When a door-sized section of a 737 MAX 9 fuselage exploded out into the void 16,000 feet over Portland, Boeing’s once-solid reputation, already staggered by the two MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019, took another

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Boeing is under fire after Alaska Airlines MAX 9 blowout. So is the FAA

By Lauren Rosenblatt Seattle Times staff reporter Nearly a week after a panel blew off an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 aircraft midflight, lawmakers and federal regulators are starting to look to the Boeing plane’s troubled history to understand what happened — and what didn’t. On Thursday, fingers started pointing. The Federal Aviation Administration announced

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Summer travel recovery restores Alaska Airlines’ stability, growth plans

An Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 sits inside a hangar at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in August. Travel statistics on the Department of Transportation website show Alaska had the top on-time performance among all U.S…. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times) By Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter Alaska Air Group posted record third-quarter revenue

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Government watchdog urges FAA to address Boeing Max engine issue

Inside Boeing’s factory lapses that led to the Alaska Air blowout

Boeing, not Spirit, mis-installed piece that blew off Alaska MAX 9 jet, industry source says

Boeing and U.S. aerospace set back by Alaska Airlines fuselage blowout

Boeing is under fire after Alaska Airlines MAX 9 blowout. So is the FAA

Summer travel recovery restores Alaska Airlines’ stability, growth plans

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