Dominic Gates, The Seattle Times

A detail in Boeing’s alert — mention of a system on the Max’s LEAP engine that many pilots hadn’t known about — caused concern.

Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Spirit, was one of the first to allege Spirit leadership had ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX.

Boeing has refused to disclose who worked on the door plug that blew off a jetliner in January, National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy told Congress.

Though the FAA doesn’t consider the problems to be an immediate risk to flight safety, in February it issued separate notices of two proposed airworthiness directives to mandate the fix for the engine anti-ice system on the MAX.

In December, Boeing asked the FAA to exempt the 737 MAX 7′s engine anti-ice system from certain safety standards it fails to meet.

There may be a further financial impact from the fuselage blowout because of delays to Boeing’s planned deliveries of another 23 MAX jets later this year.

The fuselage panel that blew off an Alaska Airlines jet this month was removed for repair but reinstalled improperly by Boeing mechanics on the Renton final assembly line, a person familiar with the details of the work told The Seattle Times.

The airline said Tuesday it is still waiting for approved final inspection and maintenance instructions for its grounded fleet of 65 MAX 9s.

As the air in the cabin rushed out, an Oregon woman turned and saw her son’s seat twisting backward toward the hole, his seat headrest ripped off and sucked into the void.

Hawaiian had a precipitous drop in travel during the COVID-19 pandemic and still hasn’t recovered.

The boom in leisure air travel moderated as summer ended with no balancing rise in post-pandemic corporate travel.

Federal officials won’t confirm the probable cause of the crash that killed 10 until its final report comes out, but released documents point to a part failure.

To retain talent, all the major airlines have been forced to include a “market rate adjustment” clause in their union contracts.

The company’s chief aerospace safety officer suggested engineers who worked on development of the MAX are still coming to terms with how the company contributed to the two crashes.

Internal FAA memos show the matter has been the subject of debate and contention within the agency.