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A major Boeing supplier was already facing allegations from one former employee that supervisors routinely ignore mistakes and send substandard quality parts to Boeing. Now, as quality control problems at Boeing and its suppliers receive intense scrutiny following a Jan. 5 blowout aboard an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9, another ex-Spirit AeroSystems employee has come forward to support the whistleblower's claims. Spun out of Boeing two decades ago, Wichita, Kan.-based Spirit AeroSystems builds large sections of several Boeing jetliner models, including the main body of the 737 Max jets assembled ...
The Seattle Times
NEW YORK — The college student who made a name — and enemy — for himself tracking Taylor Swift’s private jet is challenging the pop star’s cease and desist letter. Jack Sweeney, who runs the company GRNDCTRL and ran the now-defunct Instagram account @taylorswiftjets, tweeted his lawyer’s two-page response to Swift’s attorney, Katie Wright Morrone, captioning the letter: “Look What You Made Me Do.” The caption, as Swifties know, was the title of the lead single from the 2017 album “Reputation.” “Put simply, there is nothing unlawful about GRNDCTRL’s use of publicly accessible information to tra...
New York Daily News
The beginnings of Boeing’s defense unit go back to the company’s origins in Seattle. The Model 15 and its variants, a biplane, were used by the Army Air Service (forerunner of the U.S. Air Force) and Navy in the 1920s. Boeing gained prominence as a warplane manufacturer in the years before, during and after World War II. It built the B-17, a rugged bomber that a Seattle Times reporter called the Flying Fortress. The B-17 saw extensive service in the European theater. The B-29 Superfortress was the most advanced bomber of the 1940s and two of them dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki....
The Seattle Times
The investigation into the midair blowout of a fuselage door plug on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on Jan. 5 has confirmed that four bolts that should have kept the door plug in place were not installed when Boeing delivered the aircraft, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday in a preliminary report on the incident. "Four bolts that prevent upward movement of the mid exit door plug were missing," the report states. The NTSB said the door plug was opened at Boeing's Renton, Washington, factory so a team from supplier Spirit AeroSystems of Wichita, Kansas, could repair damaged rive...
The Seattle Times
Under intense political pressure, Boeing on Monday withdrew its request for an exemption from key safety regulations to allow the 737 Max 7 to be certified to carry passengers. "We have informed the FAA that we are withdrawing our request for a time-limited exemption relating to the engine inlet de-icing system on the 737-7," Boeing said in a statement. "We will instead incorporate an engineering solution that will be completed during the certification process." This means entry into passenger service of the Max 7, the smallest model of the Max family, will be significantly delayed until Boein...
The Seattle Times
Alaska Airlines executives said Thursday they will push Boeing to improve its quality control and expect the jetmaker to reimburse the airline for at least $150 million in losses from the grounding of its 737 Max 9 fleet after the blowout of a door-sized fuselage panel on Flight 1282 earlier this month. “It’s not acceptable what happened. We’re gonna hold them accountable. And we’re going to raise the bar on quality on Boeing,” said Alaska Air Group CEO Ben Minicucci. “We’re gonna hold Boeing’s feet to the fire to make sure that we get good airplanes out of that factory.” Alaska said it has be...
The Seattle Times
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell will hold Congressional hearings to investigate the "root cause" of "safety lapses" that led a piece of fuselage to blow out of a Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft midflight. Cantwell, chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, announced the investigation after she met Wednesday with Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun. There is not a date set for the proceedings yet. "The American flying public and Boeing line workers deserve a culture of leadership at Boeing that puts safety ahead of profits," Cantwell, D-Washington, said in a statement, adding that she made ...
The Seattle Times
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — The pilot of a small plane that crashed into the waters off the coast of Half Moon Bay last week — killing four San Francisco Bay Area residents — has been identified along with his fiancee by family members who say the couple was set to marry in Hawaii next week. Cassidy Rae Petit, 26, lived in Oakland with 27-year-old Lochie Ferrier after they relocated from Vermont in the past year, Petit’s family said in a statement released to this news organization. They also confirmed that Ferrier, who is described as an experienced test pilot on his LinkedIn page and who recentl...
The Mercury News
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 orders and deliveries released by both manufacturers shows Airbus was the world's No. 1 airplane maker for the fifth straight year and pulling away from its U.S. competitor. Airbus delivered 735 commercial jets last year, compared to Boeing's 528. And Airbus won almost 2,100 net orders, a new record...
The Seattle Times
We bull’s-eyed the Texans’ outright upset of Browns, nailed a dog-with-points cover by Rams vs. Lions, and had Bills’ 14-point winning margin on the nose vs. Steelers. The bad news? Was blindsided by Cowboys and Eagles losses, even though in hindsight the latter, especially, offered red flags I chose to ignore. Overall I’ll give a brief hug to 4-2 against the spread — which rekindles hopes to topping .500 for the season — and call it a decent start to our playoff run. ——— Wild-card round: 3-3, .500 overall; 4-2, .667 vs. spread. Season: 174-104, .626 overall; 134-135-9, .498 vs. spread. ——— GR...
Miami Herald
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