As a new year begins, this week’s Flight Friday looks back to an event that happened one year ago: the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 (MAX 9) door plug blowout on Jan. 5, 2024, and the impact and ...

The incident badly damaged Boeing’s reputation and led to the MAX 9 being grounded for two weeks, a ban by the FAA on expanding production, a criminal investigation and the departure of several key ...

As one of only two U.S. airlines that operate the Max 9, United took a major hit in the aftermath of the door plug blowout on a Alaska Airlines flight in January. United Airlines would have turned a ...

United Airlines reported it took a $200 million hit during the first-quarter from the Max 9 grounding, according to a regulatory filing posted Tuesday. The Federal Aviation Administration grounded the ...

Bill McColl has 25+ years of experience as a senior producer and writer for TV, radio, and digital media leading teams of anchors, reporters, and editors in creating news broadcasts, covering some of ...

Boeing paid Alaska Airlines $160 million in compensation in the first quarter for the grounding of the 737 Max 9, according to the airline. Alaska said it expects additional compensation from Boeing ...

Alaska We need them. At 16,000 ft. 177 passengers experienced the unimaginable. There was just *** really loud boom. *** panel flies off their Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft shortly after takeoff.

Copa Airlines is seeking “full and fair” compensation from Boeing for the three-week grounding of the 737 Max 9 in January, executives say. The Panama City-based carrier cancelled 1,788 flights, or ...

Photo Credit: Image from the NTSB investigation of the Jan. 5 accident involving Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on a Boeing 737-9 Max. Flickr / National Transportation Safety Board While the Boeing 737 ...

Former high-level Boeing managers and engineers have issued startling warnings for flyers to avoid the airplane giant’s troubled 737 MAX 9 jets as the model once again takes to the skies. “I would ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Alaska Airlines flight 535 is thought to be the first 737 Max 9 plane to land at San Francisco International Airport since the Federal Aviation Administration grounded the ...