The Civil Aviation Administration of China has ordered the country’s fleet of Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft to suspend operations,...
Reporting from Toulouse The Air Current is on the road this week, touching down in Toulouse on Monday afternoon for two...
Boeing, regulators and airlines are cautiously optimistic a conclusion to the grounding of the 737 Max is realistically — and finally — in sight. That sets the stage for the jet’s return to flying around September at the earliest. All of this is happening while simultaneously plotting further long-term safety improvements to the aircraft to assuage regulator concerns, including adding systems to the Max that were previously rejected during the jet’s initial development.
The story has been updated November 7 to reflect the issuing of the service bulletin from Boeing and Emergency Airworthiness...
In an internal message to Boeing employees Monday, company chief executive Dennis Muilenburg staunchly defended how it handled development and...
The 737 Max was born in the Admirals Club Lounge at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. On July 20, 2011, American...
Southwest Airlines will activate new Angle of Attack (AOA) indicators on the large display screens for its upcoming 737 Max...
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To try to make sense of what comes next for Boeing and the 737 Max, and what to avoid, we need to look backward again at McDonnell Douglas and its DC-10.
The first in a series on the historical parallels and lessons that unite the groundings of the DC-10 and 737...