Boeing’s manufacturing, ethical lapses go back decades

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

Boeing hit by quality lapses, certification delays; Airbus soars to dominance

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

Congress must force Boeing to be better

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

NASA and Boeing chase jet contrails with science of climate impact in doubt

By  Dominic Gates  Seattle Times aerospace reporter Scientific debate is getting heated over what to do about airplane contrails — the wispy lines of water vapor you often see trailing behind a jet. Those harmless-looking vapor trails sometimes spread out to form thin cirrus clouds. Environmental activists and nonprofits focused on climate change routinely assert

The secret dispute behind cleaning Seattle’s only river

By  Lulu Ramadan Seattle Times staff reporter This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network and The Seattle Times, with support from the Investigative Journalism Fund. Sign up for Seattle Times newsletters and alerts and ProPublica’s Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Times Watchdog stories dig deep to hold power accountable, right wrongs and