The head of beleaguered plane maker Boeing has said "a quality escape" occurred in safety checks which led to a mid-flight blowout when a door 'plug' came off during a flight involving one of the company's jets. Chief executive Dave Calhoun explained that the "quality escape" to which he referred was "anything that could potentially contribute to an accident", he told CNBC, in his first interview after the incident. The blow out occurred when a window and chunk of fuselage blew out of one of Alaska Airlines ...

Alaska Airlines said Wednesday it will cancel all flights on Boeing 737 MAX 9 jets through Saturday as it conducts inspections after a cabin panel blowout on Friday.Alaska Airlines suspended Boeing 737 MAX 9 flights through Saturday. AFP via Getty ImagesThis comes after a panel blew out midair. Instagram/@strawberrvy via REUTEThe airline’s 65 MAX-9s have been grounded since Saturday forcing the canceling about 20% of its daily flights. Boeing BA.N CEO Dave Calhoun told CNBC separately Wednesday he is in tal ...

SEATTLE, Jan. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Alaska Air Group Inc. (NYSE: ALK), the parent company of Alaska Airlines Inc. and Horizon Air Industries Inc., will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss 2023 fourth quarter financial results at 11:30 a.m. EDT/ 8:30 a.m. PDT, Thursday, January 25, 2024. A webcast of the call will be available to the public at www.alaskaair.com/investors. An archive of the call will be posted on the website later that morning. About Alaska AirlinesAlaska Airlines and our regiona ...

ToplineBoeing CEO David Calhoun said the aircraft manufacturer needs to acknowledge its mistake in an internal company-wide statement addressing the recent incident involving an Alaskan Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 jet, which faced a major mid-air scare after its door panel blew off moments after take off last week.File Photo: Boeing CEO David Calhoun said the company “going to approach this, number one, ... [+] acknowledging our mistake."© 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP Key FactsAccording to several reports, Calho ...

A Boeing 737 MAX 9 flight from Alaska Airlines made an emergency landing in Portland, Ore., after a section of the aircraft ripped away in midair on Friday. Photo: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty ImagesAfter an emergency exit-sized hole opened in the side of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 at 16,000 feet, a separate chaotic episode erupted when the cockpit door mysteriously flew open.That meant the pilots were subjected to the deafening wind and noise from the back of the plane—and also made the cockpit accessible ...

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: A Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplane performs a demonstration flight at the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, east of Paris, France, June 20, 2017. Indonesia has temporarily grounded three Boeing 737-9 Max jetliners, following an incident in which an Alaska Airlines plane suffered a blowout that left a gaping hole in the side of the fuselage ...

ToplineFederal investigators are trying to establish if the door panel that blew off an Alaska Airlines jet last week was properly bolted in place, National Transportation Safety Board officials said late on Monday, hours after both United and Alaska Airlines found loose bolts on door panels of several of their grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 planes.In this National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) handout, an opening is seen in the fuselage of ... [+] Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX in Portland, O ...

Alaska Airlines and United Airlines canceled hundreds of flights on Monday due to the temporary grounding of some Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft.  The Federal Aviation Administration ordered the grounding after a 737 Max 9 operated by Alaska Airlines lost a door plug panel mid-flight on Friday. The aircraft, bound for Ontario, California, returned safely to Portland, Oregon. No serious injuries were reported in the incident, and no passengers were in the seats closest to the blown-out door plug.Alaska Airlines, ...

Thankfully, no passengers or crew of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 were critically injured after the frightening blowout of a plug door and piece of fuselage from the 737-9 MAX jet Friday night, which forced the plane to make an emergency landing in Portland, Oregon. Investors in Alaska Air Group (NYSE:ALK) didn’t seem too concerned about the incident either. Shares of Alaska Air were flat in midday trading. But it was another story for Boeing (NYSE:BA) and one of its key suppliers.Boeing, which makes the 737 ...

Shares of AAR Corp. AIR, -3.53% were down 2.7% in afternoon trading, but pared earlier losses of as much as 8.3%, after the provider of aviation services said it had no part in the incident on the Alaska Air Group Inc.’s ALK, -0.65% flight that led to the grounding of some Boeing Co.’s BA, -7.02% 737 Max 9 planes. Still, the stock was headed for its eighth-straight loss, which would be the longest such streak since the eight-session stretch that ended June 16, 2016. “AAR did not perform any work on or near ...