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…
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 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…