This is very much a local story, believe it or not. I’ve kind of always had a hard spot in my heart for Boeing. It originally had to do with growing up with a Lockheed-loving Daddy, who sang the praises of the Electras and then L-1011s he flew for the majority of his time as...
Reuters The Air India Boeing 787, that crashed in Ahmedabad last week, seen here over Melbourne in December Less than 40 seconds. That’s how long Air India Flight 171 was airborne before it plunged into a densely populated neighbourhood in Ahmedabad in one of India’s rarest aviation disasters in recent memory. Investigators now face the...
Boeing has agreed to pay $1.1bn (£811.5m) to avoid prosecution over two fatal airline crashes that killed 346 people. The payments are part of a settlement with the US Justice Department (DOJ) over crashes involving 737 Max jets in October 2018 and March 2019. The agreement includes the US aviation giant paying $444.5m to families...
Simon Browning Business reporter, BBC News Reuters A Boeing 737 MAX 8 intended for a Chinese airline is returned to a Boeing airfield, as trade tensions escalate over US tariffs on Chinese imports China has sent back planes it ordered from the US in its latest retaliation over Trump tariffs, the boss of aircraft maker...