Families who lost loved ones in two aviation disasters linked to technical flaws in Boeing’s aircraft systems can be considered crime victims while pursuing legal judgments, according to a long-awaited ruling handed down late Friday in United States courts. In an 18-page ruling, District Judge Reed O’Connor of Texas said…
In the United States, aircraft manufacturing firm Boeing says it’s ready to move forward now that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given the green light to resume operations with its 737 MAX airplanes – the model with design flaws that led to the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight…
The final report on the Boeing 737 MAX, released Wednesday by a legislative committee in the United States, finds “repeated and serious failures” by both Boeing and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The report’s introduction begins with the story of Paul Njoroge, a Kenyan living in Canada who testified…
Boeing says former CEO Dennis A. Muilenburg has resigned in the wake of the company’s 737MAX aircraft crisis, with current board chairman David L. Calhoun tapped to step into the role after a short interim. Boeing CFO Greg Smith will serve as CEO and company president until Calhoun takes over….
The Boeing Company announced Monday that it is suspending production of its 737MAX aircraft, which have been grounded globally for months in the wake of March’s Ethiopia Airlines Flight ET302 disaster. Boeing issued a statement saying the temporary suspension of 737MAX production will begin in January so that the company,…
The father of three children who died aboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, in a March 2019 crash that also claimed his wife and her mother, testified before a U.S. legislative committee hearing on aviation safety on Wednesday in Washington. Paul Njoroge, a Kenyan living in Canada, described the lives that…
International aviation giant Boeing says there’s a new glitch in getting its 737 MAX series aircraft back in the air, as industry analysts note it will likely be the end of the year before the grounded planes are back in service. An unrelated problem arose during the United States Federal…
The CEO of Boeing admitted Thursday that, following the release of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 preliminary investigation, it was apparent that a suspect feature called the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, known as MCAS, was activated in response to data errors in the system. “We at Boeing are sorry for…
Investigators say their preliminary findings into what went wrong with Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, which crashed outside of Addis Ababa with 157 people on board on March 10, suggest that a suspect feature in the Boeing 737 MAX8 was automatically activated before the plane nose-dived to the ground. That’s according…
Ethiopian Airlines pushed back on Tuesday following media accounts suggesting that a preliminary report on the cause of the March 10 crash of Flight ET302 was expected by the end of the month. Some reports quoted airline CEO Tewolde Gebremariam saying that the findings were expected in the next week…
The Federal Aviation Administration in the United States says that new information from sophisticated monitoring systems, as well as insights from the crash site of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, led to its decision Wednesday to ban Boeing 737 MAX8 and MAX9 flights in the U.S. The FAA grounded all flights…
Amid the global aviation chaos caused by the grounding of Boeing 737MAX aircraft in the wake of Sunday’s Ethiopian Airlines tragedy, comes the news that a software upgrade planned for the planes is delayed because of a 35-day United States government shutdown in December and January. The Wall Street Journal…