Some grounded Boeing MAX-9 cleared for use
Following a three-week grounding by the FAA due to a mid-flight door panel incident, Alaska Airlines' Boeing 737 MAX-9 jets are set to resume flights today. CBS News' Kris Van Cleave reports.
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Following a three-week grounding by the FAA due to a mid-flight door panel incident, Alaska Airlines' Boeing 737 MAX-9 jets are set to resume flights today. CBS News' Kris Van Cleave reports.
Boeing said it will temporarily pause production of its 737 aircraft. The CEO of the company traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with legislators in the wake of an incident earlier this month when the door panel of a 737 Max 9 blew off during an Alaska Airlines flight. CBS News’ Kris Van Cleave has more.
Alaska Airlines has checked the bolts on its Boeing 737 MAX 9 jets and those cleared could begin returning to service as soon as Friday. CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave has the latest.
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun was back on Capitol Hill Thursday, meeting with lawmakers in an effort to address safety concerns following the Alaska Airlines door blowout. The Federal Aviation Administration also said that it has cleared the way for grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft to return to service after each undergoes a rigorous inspection and maintenance process. Kris Van Cleave has more.
Travel search engine Kayak is allowing customers to exclude Boeing 737 Max 9 planes from flight options after a door panel flew off a Max 9 in the middle of an Alaska Airlines flight. The FAA has announced it will expand its investigation into the planes to include an older model. CBS News senior travel adviser Peter Greenberg has more on how travelers can avoid the aircraft and where the FAA is in its investigation.
The FAA says grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 planes could be flying again as soon as Friday after being grounded in the wake of a door panel flying off one of the planes in midair during an Alaska Airlines flight earlier this month. CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave has more.
The issue centers around an anti-ice system on 737 Max engines.
The FAA is halting Boeing from expanding production of its 737 Max planes but has cleared a path for Max 9 jets to return to service. CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave reports.
CBS News has confirmed that 737 fuselages arrived at the Boeing plant with so many problems that Spirit AeroSystems assigned a team to be on site to make repairs.
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun was on Capitol Hill Wednesday, attempting to reassure key senators that the company's planes are safe after an incident earlier this month in which the door panel of a 737 Max 9 blew off during an Alaska Airlines flight. National Transportation Safety Board investigators have focused in on the four bolts that should have held that door panel in place. Kris Van Cleave has more.
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun is on Capitol Hill Wednesday to meet with senators who have questions about the latest mechanical issues and incidents involving Boeing planes. CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave has more.
The FAA is urging airlines to "visually inspect" door plugs on Boeing 737-900ER jets, an older model of aircraft.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after a Boeing 747 cargo plane had a mid-air scare. The plane appeared to emit sparks and even flames as its engine malfunctioned, prompting an emergency landing. It comes just weeks after another Boeing plane model was grounded after a door plug failed on an Alaskan Airlines flight. Kris Van Cleave has the latest.
In his first address since the mid-air blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun fights back tears and vows to work with regulators to ensure that something like this never happens again. CBS News' Kris Van Cleave reports.
Announcement comes one day after the agency launched an investigation into the aviation company following a mid-air blowout on a Boeing 737 Max 9 plane.
The lawsuit quotes Boeing CEO David Calhoun, who admitted to employees in a meeting Tuesday that the company is "acknowledging our mistake" in the wake of the incident.
"At the very least, installers missed something," former NTSB member John Goglia said after the door plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 jet. "It calls into question the process."
A former NTSB board member is questioning Boeing's 737 Max 9 assembly and inspection process. National investigative correspondent Stephen Stock reports on the investigation into the recent door plug blowout on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282.
"The safety of the flying public, not speed, will determine the timeline for returning the Boeing 737-9 Max to service," the FAA said.
Federal officials are continuing to investigate what may have caused a door plug to blow out on an Alaska Airlines flight involving a Boeing 737 Max 9. CBS News national investigative correspondent Stephen Stock spoke with industry insiders about what may have went wrong.
Boeing is vowing transparency following last week's incident where a door panel blew off an Alaska Airlines plane mid-flight. Speaking to staff, company CEO Dave Calhoun said they're working to ensure that something like this never happens again. CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave reports on where the investigation stands. And Jon Hemmerdinger, Americas managing editor for global aviation publisher FlightGlobal, joined CBS News to discuss the issues Boeing has seen over recent years.
Lawsuit filed a month before the mid-air blowout alleged that Spirit AeroSystems made parts with "an excessive amount of defects."
The door plug of a 737 Max 9 blew out during an Alaska Airlines flight, just minutes after the plane had taken off from Portland, Oregon.
Alaska Airlines and United Airlines say they have found loose bolts inside several door plugs on their Boeing 737 Max 9 fleets. CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave has more on the investigation. Then, Kelly Bartlett, a passenger who was on the Alaska flight when a section of the plane's fuselage blew off in midair, joins CBS News to recount the incident.
Because they had their oxygen masks on and the wind blowing through the hole in the plane was too loud, they couldn't communicate by talking. So they wrote messages in the notes app.