The Justice Department has said Boeing could face criminal prosecution because it did not live up to its word. In 2021, Boeing signed an agreement that avoided criminal prosecution connected with two 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people. On Tuesday, the Justice Department wrote the judge responsible for overseeing the […]
News By The Associated Press May 13, 2024 at 10:24am U.S. airlines are suing to block the Biden administration from requiring greater transparency over fees that the carriers charge their passengers, saying that a new rule would confuse consumers by giving them too much information during the ticket-buying process. The U.S. Transportation Department said Monday […]
Are greedy passengers exploiting Southwest Airlines’ preboarding system? The large volume of passengers who board before everyone else is spurring concerns of abuse, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Some believe their fellow Southwest customers are falsely claiming disabilities in order to preboard. “Frequent fliers see it as a devious way to game the open-seating […]
Things continue to go from bad to worse for Boeing. Even as the unexpected deaths of two whistleblowers who went public with concerns about the company’s practices have made headlines across the country, 10 more whistleblowers are waiting in the wings, according to a New York Post report. Joshua Dean, a whistleblower for a Boeing […]
China continued it saber rattling with another aerial incursion across the Taiwan Strait late this week, according to the island nation’s defense ministry. The ministry, which provides daily updates on Chinese activity in the area, said during its Friday update that the latest incident included more than a dozen Chinese planes. Taiwan said 14 “military […]
A whistleblower for a Boeing supplier died Tuesday at the age of 45 after being diagnosed with pneumonia and then MRSA, according to The Seattle Times. Joshua Dean, who had been a quality auditor at Spirit AeroSystem, had claimed manufacturing defects on Boeing’s 737 MAX were being ignored, the outlet reported. The Wichita, Kansas, man […]
Most UFO sightings probably weren’t of alien spacecraft straight out of Star Trek or Star Wars, but that wouldn’t have made them any less of a potential threat. They could have been weather balloons, high-flying wildlife, misidentified military crafts, or — a more sinister possibility — drones or other spy equipment sent by our nation’s […]
Southwest Airlines announced Thursday it will reduce its workforce by 2,000 employees and cut service to four airports after posting a major loss to begin the year. CEO Bob Jordan said in an early morning news release on the company’s first-quarter results that it would adapt and seek growth to end the year and that […]
A Boeing engineer-turned-whistleblower told U.S. senators this week that the company’s aircraft are dangerous and that when he raised concerns about them, he was told to “shut up.” Company engineer Sam Salehpour made headlines last week when he explained to The New York Times that he had previously expressed serious concerns about Boeing’s 787 Dreamliners. […]
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after the pilot of a Southwest Airlines was given instructions that could have caused a catastrophe at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Thursday. According to NBC News, the pilot of the Southwest jet was errantly and prematurely told to cross an occupied runway while taxiing. The result was a […]
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