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National Transportation Safety Board chairman Jennifer Homendy speaks during a meeting about Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

NTSB chair says systemic failures led to door plug flying off Boeing 737 Max plane midflight

By Josh Funk - Associated Press

Barleycorn's, a restaurant, bar and live music venue, uses its marquee to express its sympathy for friends and family of the victims of a deadly crash involving a commercial airliner flying from Wichita and an Army helicopter in Washington, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, in Wichita, Kansas. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

A deadly flight out of Wichita has one of America’s most historic aviation cities reeling

By John Hanna and Heather Hollingsworth - Associated Press

Boeing says it has a deal to avoid a strike by more than 30,000 machinists

By David Koenig - Associated Press

An airplane flies over a sign on Boeing's 737 delivery center, Oct. 19, 2015, at Boeing Field in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

‘People’s lives are at stake’: Boeing faces 10 more whistleblowers after two die

By Staff - The Washington Times

Boeing 737 Max airplanes, including one belonging to TUI Group, left, sit parked at a storage lot, Monday, April 26, 2021, near Boeing Field in Seattle. Boeing reports earnings on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Boeing posts a $355 million loss as the plane maker tries to dig out from under its latest crisis

By David Koenig - Associated Press

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a news conference in Dallas on June 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) **FILE**

The Texas attorney general is investigating a key Boeing supplier and asking about diversity

By David Koenig - Associated Press

Alaska Airlines aircraft sit in the airline's hangar at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in SeaTac, Wash. Boeing has acknowledged in a letter to Congress that it cannot find records for work done on a door panel that blew out on an Alaska Airlines flight over Oregon two months ago. Ziad Ojakli, Boeing executive vice president and chief government lobbyist, wrote to Sen. Maria Cantwell on Friday, March 8 saying, “We have looked extensively and have not found any such documentation.” (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Boeing says it can’t find work records related to door panel that blew out on Alaska Airlines flight

By Gene Johnson - Associated Press

Alaska Airlines aircraft sit in the airline's hangar at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in SeaTac, Wash. Boeing has acknowledged in a letter to Congress that it cannot find records for work done on a door panel that blew out on an Alaska Airlines flight over Oregon two months ago. Ziad Ojakli, Boeing executive vice president and chief government lobbyist, wrote to Sen. Maria Cantwell on Friday, March 8 saying, “We have looked extensively and have not found any such documentation.” (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Boeing says it can’t find work records related to door panel that blew out on Alaska Airlines flight

By Gene Johnson - Associated Press

The final version of the 737 MAX, the MAX 10, takes off from Renton Airport in Renton, Wash., on its first flight Friday, June 18, 2021. The Federal Aviation Administration is giving Boeing 90 days to come up with a plan to meet safety standards for building new planes, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. The company has been beset by quality problems in manufacturing of its popular 737 Max jetliner. (Ellen M. Banner/The Seattle Times via AP, Pool)

Boeing is reportedly in talks to buy Spirit AeroSystems, its key supplier on the troubled 737 Max

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This photo released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows the door plug from Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on Jan. 8, 2024, in Portland, Ore. Investigators say bolts that helped secure the panel on the Boeing jetliner were missing before the panel blew off the plane in midflight last month. The National Transportation Safety Board issued a preliminary report Tuesday, Feb. 6 into the Jan. 5 accident. The loss of the panel forced pilots of the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 jet to make a harrowing emergency landing. (National Transportation Safety Board via AP, file)

NTSB says bolts on Boeing jetliner were missing before a panel blew out in midflight last month

By David Koenig - Associated Press

FILE - A woman walks by models of Boeing Co. aircraft, including the manufacturer's new Boeing 777X, at the Dubai Air Show in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. Boeing reports their earnings on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Boeing cuts its 4Q loss to $30 million, but that was before one of its jets lost a panel in flight

By David Koenig - Associated Press

This image taken Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, and released by the National Transportation Safety Board, shows a section of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 that is missing panel on a Boeing 737-9 MAX in Portland, Ore. Federal officials are investigating Boeing's oversight of production of a panel that blew off a jetliner in midflight last week. (NTSB via AP)

U.S. intensifies oversight of Boeing, will begin production audits after latest mishap

By Tom Krisher and David Koenig - Associated Press

Alaska Airlines N704AL, a 737 Max 9 which made an emergency landing at Portland International Airport after a part of the fuselage broke off mid-flight on Friday, is parked at a maintenance hanger in Portland, Ore., Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer)

Alaska Airlines cancels flights on certain Boeing planes through Saturday for mandatory inspections

By David Koenig - Associated Press

This photo released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows a gaping hole where the paneled-over door had been at the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, in Portland, Ore. A panel used to plug an area reserved for an exit door on the Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner blew out Jan. 5, shortly after the flight took off from Portland, forcing the plane to return to Portland International Airport. (National Transportation Safety Board via AP)

Investigation into why a panel blew off a Boeing 737 Max 9 jet focuses on missing bolts

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Laid-off Kansas aviation workers find new opportunities

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Aircraft parts maker Spirit announces 450 more layoffs

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Spirit AeroSystems seeks voluntary layoffs

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Spirit AeroSystems extends furloughs for about 900 workers

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Spirit AeroSystems to furlough about 900 hourly workers

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FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2020, file photo a Boeing 777X airplane takes off on its first flight with the Olympic Mountains in the background at Paine Field in Everett, Wash. Boeing on Wednesday, May 27, is cutting more than 12,000 jobs through layoffs and buyouts as the coronavirus pandemic seizes the travel industry. And the aircraft maker says more cuts are coming. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File).

Boeing cuts 12,000 jobs, resumes production of grounded jet

By DAVID KOENIG - Associated Press