Tag Archives: Boeing

The New York Times reports: Boeing reached a deal with the Justice Department on Friday that would spare the company from taking criminal responsibility for a pair of deadly 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019. Under the deal, which was staunchly opposed by many families of the victims of the fatal crashes, Boeing would admit to obstructing federal oversight, …

The Telegraph reports: China has barred its country’s airlines from accepting deliveries from Boeing in retaliation against Donald Trump’s tariffs. Boeing has been caught in the middle of the clash, losing access to one of the world’s biggest aviation markets in the process. The ban will apply to all existing orders from the US manufacturing giant, while Beijing has also …

Seattle’s NBC affiliate reports: Boeing machinists represented by IAM District 751 voted to approve a new contract with the company on Monday, bringing an end to a nearly two-month long strike that paralyzed the company’s jet production and cost them an estimated $1 billion a month. The contract received 59% approval from union membership. This latest contract proposal offers a …

Reuters reports: Boeing’s U.S. West Coast factory workers walked off the job early on Friday after overwhelmingly rejecting a contract deal, halting production of the planemaker’s strongest-selling jet as it wrestles with severe output delays and heavy debt. The workers’ first strike since 2008 comes as the planemaker is under heavy scrutiny from U.S. regulators and customers after a door …

The Washington Post reports: NASA announced Saturday that it will use SpaceX’s Dragon capsule to bring home two astronauts stuck in space for months, because the agency does not have confidence in Boeing’s troubled Starliner capsule. The highly anticipated decision, one of the most consequential by the space agency in years, is a devastating blow to Boeing, which had argued …

Courthouse News reports: Boeing will plead guilty to one count of conspiracy and the company’s board will pay over $940 million after the crashes of two 737 Max aircraft that killed 346 people, federal prosecutors told a federal judge Wednesday evening. Prosecutors say in the proposed plea agreement filed Wednesday that the Virginia-based aerospace manufacturer will plead guilty to conspiracy …

CNBC reports: Boeing agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge tied to the fatal 737 Max crashes, the Justice Department said Sunday, months after U.S. prosecutors said the aerospace giant violated a 2021 settlement that shielded it from prosecution. Under the deal, Boeing agreed to pay a $243.6 million fine. An independent compliance monitor would also be installed …

Reuters reports: The U.S. Justice Department will criminally charge Boeing with fraud over two fatal crashes and ask the planemaker to plead guilty or face a trial, two people familiar with the matter said on Sunday. The Justice Department planned to formally offer a plea agreement to Boeing later in the day, which includes a financial penalty and imposition of …

Reuters reports: The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Thursday it was sanctioning Boeing for disclosing non-public details of an ongoing investigation into a 737 MAX mid-air emergency and would refer its conduct to the Justice Department. The NTSB said Boeing had “blatantly violated” the agency’s investigative regulations by providing “non-public investigative information to the media” and speculating about …

USA Today reports: Boeing and NASA are once again “adjusting” the return home of two astronauts from the International Space Station on the Starliner spacecraft. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were scheduled to stay at the ISS for just a week after docking there June 6. Now they aren’t expected to make the trip back to Earth until at least …

Reuters reports: U.S. prosecutors are recommending to senior Justice Department officials that criminal charges be brought against Boeing after finding the planemaker violated a settlement related to two fatal crashes, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Justice Department must decide by July 7 whether to prosecute Boeing. The recommendation of prosecutors handling the case has not been …

Reuters reports: Relatives of the victims of two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes asked the Justice Department on Wednesday to seek a fine against the planemaker of up to $24.78 billion and move forward with a criminal prosecution. “Because Boeing’s crime is the deadliest corporate crime in U.S. history, a maximum fine of more than $24 billion is legally justified …

The Washington Post reports: A Senate committee released new whistleblower allegations against Boeing on Tuesday just hours before the aircraft manufacturer’s chief executive, David Calhoun, was scheduled to testify before the panel to respond to myriad investigations into quality oversight and production failures. The new whistleblower, Sam Mohawk, told Senate investigators in May that he witnessed “systematic disregard” for documentation …

Reuters reports: Boeing’s new Starliner capsule and its inaugural two-member NASA crew safely docked with the International Space Station on Thursday, meeting a key test in proving the vessel’s flight-worthiness and sharpening Boeing’s competition with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The rendezvous was achieved despite an earlier loss of several guidance-control jet thrusters, some of them due to a helium propulsion leak, …

CBNC reports: Boeing launched its first Starliner flight with astronauts on Wednesday, beginning a crucial final flight test of the long-delayed spacecraft. The launch took off at 10:52 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida with two NASA astronauts aboard. Starliner is carried by an United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket and bound for the International Space Station. Wednesday’s liftoff comes …

CBS News reports: After being notified by Boeing that some company employees failed to complete specific inspections on some 787 Dreamliners but reported the checks as having been completed, essentially falsifying inspection records, the Federal Aviation Administration has opened a formal investigation. The inspections verify there is adequate bonding and grounding of the fasteners connecting the wings to the fuselage. …

Austin’s NBC affiliate reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he’s looking into a company that supplies parts to Boeing, and part of his investigation includes whether its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) commitments factored into safety issues. Paxton announced Thursday he sent a “request to examine” letter to Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc., which has a facility in Texas and …

CNBC reports: Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will step down at the end of 2024 in part of a broad management shakeup for the embattled aerospace giant. Chairman of the board Larry Kellner is also resigning and will leave the board at Boeing’s annual meeting in May. He has been replaced as chair by Steve Mollenkopf, who has been a Boeing …

The New York Times reports: Passengers aboard an Alaska Airlines plane that made an emergency landing after a fuselage panel blew off this year have started to receive letters from the F.B.I. identifying them as possible victims of a crime. The letters are a sign that a criminal investigation the Justice Department has opened into Boeing, the manufacturer of the …

The Insider reports: Monday’s Latam Airlines incident might have been caused by a flight attendant accidentally hitting a switch in the cockpit, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner was flying from Sydney to Auckland when it suddenly dropped. 50 people were treated by paramedics, of whom 12 were sent to the hospital, the New Zealand Herald reported. …