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In September 2019, The New York Times reported that Boeing board will call for structural changes after the 737 MAX crashes: changing corporate reporting structures, a new safety group, future plane cockpits designed for new pilots with less training. The committee, established in April, did not investigate the Max crashes, but produced the ...
Boeing said it had also “fully implemented” new procedures around the final assembly of its 737 and 787 aircraft that tracks and secures parts “to prevent loss or improper use.”
Boeing has lost more than $35 billion since 2019 following the crashes of two then-new Max jets that killed 346 people. For the full year 2024, Boeing logged a loss of $11.8 billion.
The American plane maker has been under intense pressure since early January, when a panel blew off a brand-new Alaska Airlines 737 Max midflight. On Monday, Boeing announced that CEO David ...
Boeing may need to come up with a permanent solution, The Seattle Times reported. That may further delay the certification of the Max 7 and Max 10, which are years behind schedule.
The Boeing 737 MAX passenger airliner was grounded worldwide between March 2019 and December 2020, and again in 2024, after 346 people died in two similar crashes in less than five months: Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018, and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019.
The company indicated that this change eliminated the need for pilots to have simulator training on the new aircraft. [citation needed] After the fatal crash of Lion Air Flight 610 in 2018, Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) referred pilots to a revised trim runaway checklist that must be performed in case of a malfunction ...
Boeing agreed in July to plead guilty to fraud in the wake of two fatal 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019 and to pay a fine of up to $487.2 million and spend $455 million to improve safety and ...