Full coverage: Boeing 737 Max planes grounded in U.S. and around the world following 2 deadly crashes
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Boeing cut corners to get the 737 Max on the market fast. A company long run by engineers for engineers is now a company run by corporate bureaucrats.
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A government committee that reviewed how the FAA certifies new passenger planes for flight determined the system is safe and effective, despite two deadly crashes involving the Boeing 737 Max.
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Indonesia’s Lion Air wanted simulator training for its pilots before they flew the 737 Max, but was talked out of it by Boeing, sources say.
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The communications threaten to upend Boeing’s efforts to rebuild public trust in the 737 Max.
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U.S. airlines are struggling to secure flight simulators for Boeing’s 737 Max.
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Boeing is weighing a debt raise as it faces new complications over the return of its 737 Max.
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Boeing will be hobbled by the 737 Max affair for years to come. Yet the board that oversaw this calamity is not being held to task.
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Boeing’s 737 Max design was supposed to save money and help compete with Airbus. Instead, it created a crisis that killed hundreds of people, ate up billions of dollars and led to CEO Dennis Muilenburg’s ouster.
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Boeing will pause production of the grounded 737 Max plane in January. It doesn’t expect to lay off workers, but its suppliers might.
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After the first crash of a Boeing 737 Max, safety officials estimated there could be 15 more crashes without a fix.
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Regulators overseeing changes on Boeing’s 737 Max rejected an audit of how the software was being developed, according to a person familiar with the action.
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Lawmakers hammered Boeing’s CEO for a second straight day over the 737 Max, the plane involved in two deadly crashes.
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The House member’s allegation came after senators grilled Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg over the “entirely preventable” 737 Max crashes.
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U.S. regulators assessing Boeing’s 737 Max sometimes didn’t follow their own rules, used outdated procedures and lacked the resources and expertise to fully vet design changes, a review panel concluded.
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Airlines have begun to strategize on how to get anxious fliers back into the cabin of a Boeing 737 Max, but it won’t be easy.
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Boeing’s CEO is shaking up the company’s organizational structure to sharpen its focus on safety.
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The Boeing 737 Max problem that caused deadly crashes triggered multiple loud alarms that might have confused the pilots, the NTSB found.
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Boeing Co. burned $1 billion in cash during the second quarter, a sign of the strain from a protracted grounding of the 737 Max jetliner that followed two fatal crashes.
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Boeing Co. plans to record a $4.9-billion accounting charge related to its beleaguered 737 Max jetliner when the company reports quarterly earnings next week.
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The extended grounding of Boeing Co.’s 737 Max plane forced Ryanair Holdings Plc to scale back growth plans for next summer, putting the airline industry on notice that the crisis is starting to affect longer-term plans.
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Saudi Arabian budget carrier Flyadeal reversed a commitment to buy as many as 50 Boeing Co. 737 Max jets, becoming the first airline to officially cut off the plane since its grounding after two deadly crashes.
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Boeing Co. said it would offer $100 million to support the families of victims and others affected by the recent crashes of its 737 Max jetliner, which killed 346 people and have led to scores of lawsuits.
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Boeing Co. could take as long as three months to fix the latest software glitch on its 737 Max, discovered when a U.S. government pilot doing simulator tests experienced a lag in an emergency response because a computer chip was overwhelmed with data, people familiar with the matter said.
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Retired pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger told a congressional panel Wednesday that pilots should practice the failure of Boeing flight-control software on simulators, not planes full of passengers.
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The Paris Air Show is typically an Airbus stronghold where the European plane maker unveils its biggest orders, relegating Boeing Co. to bit player.
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Boeing Co.’s 737 Max aircraft, grounded since March after two fatal crashes in five months, should be back in the air by December, a top U.S. regulator said.
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U.S. airlines have their work cut out for them in trying to coax frightened travelers back onto Boeing Co.’s 737 Max once a worldwide grounding ends.
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Flying has become deadlier than it has been for years and it’s hard to pin it solely on the Boeing Co.’s infamous 737 Max.
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An Ethiopian Airlines pilot told senior managers at the carrier months before one of its 737 Max jets crashed that more training and better communication to crew members was needed to avert a repeat of a similar disaster involving a Lion Air flight.
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While regulators contemplate whether Boeing Co.’s 737 Max can safely return to the skies, workers in a California airplane-storage yard keep a careful vigil against earthier concerns.
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Embattled aerospace giant Boeing Co. is reportedly facing a probe by the U.S.
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Executives from some of the world’s largest airlines will gather for a private meeting Thursday in Canada to discuss Boeing Co.’s 737 Max at the same time global regulators convene in Texas to sort out what’s needed to return the plane to service.
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Dennis Muilenburg wanted to be “the world’s best airplane designer,” he once told a reporter.
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U.S. aviation regulators expect to receive Boeing Co.’s proposed software fix for the grounded 737 Max as soon as next week and will then begin a review that will include test flights and input from a technical advisory board.
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Boeing Co.’s 737 Max is about to join the list of brands trying to come back from ignominy.
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Boeing Co. met with 737 Max operators and lessors in Amsterdam on Tuesday, the first of about six sessions planned around the world as the plane maker lays the groundwork for resuming commercial flights of the aircraft after two deadly crashes.
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Boeing Co. knew months before a deadly 737 Max crash that a cockpit alert wasn’t working the way the company had told buyers of the single-aisle jetliner.
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Boeing Co. acknowledged that a cockpit alert notifying pilots of a sensor malfunction linked to two fatal accidents wasn’t working as represented on every 737 Max.
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Southwest Airlines Co. built its low-cost model on the efficiencies of flying a single plane, the Boeing Co. 737.
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“How did this happen?”
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A new, long-delayed 88-passenger jet from Japan may finally be the right plane at the right time.
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Southwest Airlines is removing flights with the troubled Boeing 737 Max aircraft from its schedule through Aug. 5, a period that includes the peak of the airline’s busy summer travel season.
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Before last month’s crash of a flight that began in Ethiopia, Boeing Co. said in a legal document that large, upgraded 737s “cannot be used at what are referred to as ‘high/hot’ airports.”
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A doomed Ethiopian Airlines jet suffered from faulty readings by a key sensor, and pilots followed Boeing’s recommended procedures when the plane started to nosedive but could not avoid crashing, according to a preliminary report released Thursday by the Ethiopian government.
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Pilots on the Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed last month followed protocol set by planemaker Boeing Co. to manually disable an automated anti-stall system as they tried to save the Boeing Co. 737 Max jet, a person familiar with the situation said.
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A faulty sensor on a Lion Air 737 Max that’s been linked to the jetliner’s deadly crash in October and a harrowing ride the previous day was repaired in a U.S. aircraft maintenance facility before the tragedy, according to investigative documents.
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When an altitude sensor failed on a Turkish Airlines Boeing 737 flight to Amsterdam in 2009, the jetliner’s computerized flight controls erroneously cut the engine thrust.
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There was a prominent no-show among the 200 regulators, pilots and airline managers that Boeing Co. invited to preview a crucial software update for the 737 Max this week, said people familiar with the matter: European safety officials.
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Boeing Co. will modify the flight control system of its 737 Max jetliner so its software cannot send the aircraft into a series of uncontrolled dives, as it may have done in two crashes over the last five months, the company said Wednesday.
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Boeing is expected to announce details Wednesday about the software updates and other fixes it plans for its troubled 737 Max jets, but questions remain about whether the company and its regulators can be trusted to ensure that the planes are safe after two deadly crashes in less than five months.
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One day after an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed, killing all 157 people on board, China’s civil aviation administration issued an order to ground all Boeing 737 Max 8 airplanes.
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In a blow to Boeing Co., Indonesia’s national airline is seeking the cancellation of a multibillion-dollar order for 49 of the manufacturer’s 737 Max 8 jets, citing a loss of confidence after two of those planes crashed in the last six months.
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The passenger jets that crashed in Ethiopia and Indonesia, killing hundreds, reportedly lacked special safety features in their cockpits — features that Boeing charged extra for.
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Air crash experts gathered in Ethiopia to analyze voice and data recorders from a Boeing 737 Max jetliner as controversy over the model’s safety intensified following two fatal disasters in less than five months.
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As the Lion Air crew fought to control their diving Boeing Co. 737 Max 8, they got help from an unexpected source: an off-duty pilot who happened to be riding in the cockpit.
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A set of stairs may have never caused so much trouble in an aircraft.
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The fatal crashes of two Boeing Co. 737 Max jets and the fleet’s worldwide grounding have triggered a complicated scramble regarding legal liability involving the manufacturer, airlines and the victims’ families.
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A screw-like device found in the wreckage of the Boeing Co. 737 Max 8 that crashed Sunday in Ethiopia has provided investigators with an early clue into what happened as work begins in France to decode the “black boxes” recovered from the scene.
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Ethiopia has sent the “black box” recording devices from a crashed Boeing 737 Max jet to France for analysis after refusing to hand them over to U.S. authorities, who had kept the Max model flying after most other regulators had grounded it.
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Boeing executives sat down in November with pilots at the Allied Pilots Assn.’s low-slung brick headquarters in Fort Worth.
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He has demanded “goddamned steam” to power the Navy’s aircraft carriers and prefers a wall to drones and other technology to secure the country’s southern border.
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Talk about leading from behind: The Federal Aviation Administration waited until 51 other countries’ air safety regulators barred flights by Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft before announcing Wednesday that it too would ground the planes indefinitely.
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The Trump administration, the last major holdout worldwide to ground the Boeing 737 Max, joined dozens of other nations Wednesday in temporarily parking the planes, citing new data it says revealed similarities between two deadly crashes.
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The second fatal crash of a Boeing Co. 737 Max aircraft in less than five months is creating a new hierarchy in aviation safety — thrusting to the top none other than U.S. rival China.
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Canada joined much of the world in grounding Boeing Co.’s 737 Max jetliner Wednesday, leaving the United States virtually alone in allowing the aircraft to keep flying.
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The Boeing Co. 737 Max crash in Ethiopia looks increasingly likely to hit the plane maker’s order book as mounting safety concerns prompt airlines to reconsider purchases worth about $57 billion.
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Ethiopian Airlines announced Wednesday that it would send the voice and data recorders from its ill-fated Flight 302 to be analyzed abroad, as more countries said they were banning planes of the same type from operating in their airspace.
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The Federal Aviation Administration doubled down on its support for the safety of Boeing Co.’s 737 Max aircraft Tuesday, even as much of the world moved to ground the planes.
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Technology and healthcare companies led U.S. stock indexes mostly higher Tuesday, building on the market’s solid gains from the day before.
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Update: Trump orders Max planes grounded; Boeing supports move ‘out of an abundance of caution’ » Pressure is mounting for the Federal Aviation Administration and U.S.
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The twin-engine 737 is Boeing Co.’s most-produced jetliner and a workhorse of the aviation industry, with airlines worldwide piling up orders for more than 5,000 of its newest version, the 737 Max.
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Boeing Co. came under growing international pressure to account for the second crash of its 737 Max aircraft, as China and other countries grounded their fleets and investors pounded the aerospace company’s shares in trading Monday.
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The crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max jetliner Sunday comes days after surviving family members of last year’s Indonesian Lion Air disaster filed another lawsuit against Boeing, accusing the company of installing a faulty flight control system in the popular aircraft and failing to inform pilots of its existence.
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Boeing Co. stock dived more than 7% on Monday morning after one of the company’s workhorse 737s crashed in Ethiopia over the weekend, killing all 157 people aboard.
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People who work for the United Nations and its many agencies know what they are getting into, especially in the field.
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The crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max jetliner on Sunday, killing all 157 aboard, had uncanny similarities to a fatal accident in Indonesia five months earlier, raising disturbing questions about a mainstay aircraft that airlines have bought by the hundreds.
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A brand-new Ethiopian airlines plane bound for Nairobi crashed Sunday, killing all 157 people on board, including eight Americans and 18 Canadians.
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When an altitude sensor failed on a Turkish Airlines Boeing 737 flight to Amsterdam in 2009, the jetliner’s computerized flight controls erroneously cut the engine thrust.
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Only moments after taking off from Jakarta, the pilots flying Lion Air 610 realized they were losing control of their 737 Max jetliner, the newest, most fuel-efficient and most automated version of the popular Boeing model.
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Boeing Co. pushed back on suggestions that it could have better alerted airlines to a new anti-stall feature in the 737 Max jetliner involved in a fatal Indonesia crash, and it canceled a Tuesday call with carriers during which it had planned to discuss the model.
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Boeing’s popular 737 MAX aircraft and one of its flight control systems are now in the spotlight after the aircraft suddenly plunged into the sea last month, killing all 189 people aboard the Lion Air flight.
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Rescuers in inflatable boats retrieved human remains, pieces of aircraft and personal belongings from the Java Sea late Monday after a new-generation Boeing jet operated by an Indonesian budget airline crashed minutes after takeoff, killing all 189 people on board.
