Will this plane land safely? That question was very much on the minds of the 87 passengers on the revamped Boeing 737 MAX’s first public flight Wednesday following a 20-month grounding after two fatal crashes. US authorities last month gave the green light for the plane to return to service after upgrades in the wake … Read more
OCT. 29, 2018 – A Lion Air 737 MAX plane crashes in Indonesia, killing all 189 people on board NOV. 13, 2018 – FAA, Boeing say they are evaluating the need for software or design changes to 737 MAX jets following the Lion Air crash NOV. 30, 2018 – Boeing is weighing plans to launch … Read more
Boeing 737 runs over and kills a brown bear while landing in Alaska after animal strayed onto runway The Boeing 737-700 killed animal on Saturday evening at Yakutat Airport, Alaska Plane landed after dark, airport crew cleared runway before flight due to land First time a bear is reported to have been hit, two year old … Read more
Man, 23, makes history as he becomes youngest black certified Boeing 777 pilot in the world Malik Sinegal, 23, from Mississippi, last month became youngest ever black Boeing 777 pilot in the world Sinegal graduated from Delta State University with a degree in commercial aviation Boeing 777 is the world’s largest twinjet plane and is usually … Read more
Boeing announces new plan to cut 30,000 jobs as it reports a £374m loss for the third quarter Boeing failed to record a single order for a new jetliner in September In the first nine months of the year, it has delivered only 98 planes This is compared with 301 during the same stretch of … Read more
The wide body, four-engine Boeing 747-400 is an iconic part of British Airways’ fleet. BA, which was the world’s largest operator of the Boeing 747, described the 747-400 as ‘a proven performer with high reliability’ which boasts high reliability and has incorporated major aerodynamic improvements over earlier 747 models, which have a history stretching back 50 … Read more
Boeing ‘hid design flaws’ in 737 Max jet that led to two deadly crashes with a loss of 346 lives By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 16 September 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 16 September 2020 Two deadly Boeing 737 Max crashes were the ‘horrific culmination’ of engineering, mismanagement and oversight … Read more
Two Boeing plane crashes that killed 346 people in five months were the ‘horrific culmination’ of design flaws, poor government oversight and a lack of action by the planemaker, US investigators have said. Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration were both criticized in a scathing report by the House Transportation Committee after the crashes in … Read more
Mother goes for a walk on Boeing 737’s WING to ‘get some air’ because she was ‘too hot’ while waiting to disembark in Ukraine A woman climbed onto the wing of a plane when landing in Kyiv from Antalya Videos show the women stalling on the wing before climbing back in the cabin The mother-of-two was banned from … Read more
These jaw-dropping aerial and internal shots show a top-secret Soviet ground-effect vehicle bigger than a jumbo jet lying abandoned on a beach where it will be converted into a museum. The futuristic-looking MD-160 Lun-class ekranoplan was towed by tug across the Caspian Sea last month as part of a 14-hour journey from Kaspiysk naval base to Derbent, … Read more