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Boeing informed the FAA that on some 787s, the company may not have completed required inspections to confirm adequate bonding and electrical grounding where the wings join the fuselage body.
The new allegations of fraud against Boeing could ultimately connect the Alaska Airlines incident with two deadly 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019.
The crash of the Douglas DC-4 on the Tanana River in late April killed two people hauling fuel to the Northwest Alaska community of Kobuk.
Congressional scrutiny of Boeing has increased since a fuselage panel blew out of a Boeing 737 MAX on an Alaska Airlines flight. Whether that scrutiny will drive any changes in Washington, D.C., remains an open question.
The 53-year-old Florida man sitting in first class was removed from a flight to Minneapolis on Monday night and arrested Thursday in Anchorage, according to a federal complaint.
The plane was headed to Kobuk with nearly 4,500 gallons of fuel onboard when it crashed, an NTSB official said.
A witness described hearing an explosion before the Douglas DC-4 went down Tuesday morning along the Tanana River.
Seybert founded PenAir at age 18 in a Southwest Alaska village. It became the largest regional carrier in Alaska.
The stoppage was in place for about an hour Wednesday morning. Residual delays are expected throughout the delay.
The Boeing engineer alleged that almost 1,000 787s and about 400 777s currently flying are at risk of premature fatigue damage and structural failure.
Alaska Airlines said that Boeing paid $160 million in “initial compensation” and that the carrier expects additional compensation — the terms of which it said are confidential.
A captain flying on a commercial airline’s largest aircraft can bring home an average of $348,252 a year, based on recent pilot contracts that passed over the last year.
Published reports and government officials have said the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into the aircraft company.
A new lawsuit representing seven passengers on the 737 jet was filed in Washington’s King County Superior Court on Thursday against Boeing, Alaska Airlines, Spirit AeroSystems and 10 people listed as John Does.
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.
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.
The third and latest suit was filed Feb. 20 in Multnomah County Circuit Court and is the first to seek a specified dollar amount: $1 billion in personal and punitive damages.
Boeing used to own Spirit, and the company says bringing the manufacturer back into the Boeing fold would improve plane quality and safety.
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.
The experts say that safety training and procedures at Boeing change so frequently that it leads to confusion among employees.
The 130 layoffs will affect departments across the board, a Ravn Alaska spokesperson said. A union group says pilots face “potential furloughs.”
The shakeup comes weeks after a fuselage door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 over Oregon.
Another ex- Spirit employee has come forward to support whistleblower claims.