Another blow for Boeing's Moon mission contracts
Nasa is revising its Moon-landing plans, reducing Boeing’s role while elevating SpaceX’s Starship rocket to do the job of propelling astronauts to lunar orbit, people familiar with the matter said.
Under the original plan set years ago...
Crewless Starliner lands safely
Boeing Co.’s glitchy space capsule returned to Earth without a crew, after a test flight that was marked by technical problems and delays.
The CST-100 Starliner departed the International Space Station at 6:04 p.m. Friday New York time and landed in White Sands...
Secretive X-37B space plane launched into orbit by SpaceX
SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket lofted a secretive space plane for the US Space Force on Thursday evening from Florida, the first time the rocket was used to send the Boeing Co.-built experimental spacecraft to orbit.
The launch...
Boeing parts website goes dark following cyberattack
Boeing Co.’s website selling spare aircraft parts, software and services was offline Thursday after the aerospace giant acknowledged it was dealing with a cyberattack.
Customers visiting the official Boeing supplies web page were met with an...
Suspected ransomware attack on Boeing
Boeing Co. confirmed it is dealing with a “cyber incident” that targeted elements of the parts and distribution business run by its global services division.
Flight safety isn’t affected, Boeing said in an emailed statement Wednesday, adding, “We are...
Boeing collaborates with Hivemind on pilot-less military planes
Boeing Co. and Shield AI Inc. have agreed to work together to accelerate the military use of the startup’s autonomous aircraft software and explore other defence applications for the artificial-intelligence technology.
Shield AI’s...
FAA Orders Airlines to Inspect Thousands of Boeing 737 Jets Due to Fear of Switch Failures - Gizmodo
The FAA has found the failure rate of switches on 737 jets that control cabin pressure is "much higher than initially estimated."...
Boeing, already having taken a $4.9 billion after-tax charge this year amid the ongoing fallout from two deadly 737 Max crashes, now has problems with a different line of planes.
Per CNN, the Federal Aviation Administration is ordering inspections of 737 Next Generation models (737-600...
Boeing has suspended structural testing of the 777X, after a door reportedly blew off the fuselage.
According to Charlie Harger from KOMO News, the aircraft was undergoing its final stages of structural testing when the malfunction occurred.
Sources told Harger that the door came flying off...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a superseding airworthiness directive (AD) for the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 that powers the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
This AD replaces a previous one (AD 2018-25-01) released in 2018.
The old one required initial and repetitive inspections of...
New Boeing 737 Max flaw is a software issue
As U.S. government test pilots ran through dozens of flight scenarios on the Boeing Co. 737 Max in recent weeks, a potential failure got their attention.
The plane’s flight computer tried to push the aircraft’s nose down repeatedly during a simulator...
Boeing will pay $100 million to families of 737 Max crash victims
Boeing has announced it will start a $100-million fund to help the families and communities of the victims who died in two 737 Max crashes in October last year.
Boeing said that these funds will support living expenses of the...
New safety risk discovered on Boeing 737 Max - Changes ordered by FAA
Tests on Boeing Co.’s grounded 737 Max have revealed a new safety risk unrelated to two fatal crashes that led to the grounding of the aircraft, and U.S. regulators are ordering the company to make additional design changes...
US grounds all Boeing 737 Max 8 planes
U.S. regulators reversed course Wednesday and grounded Boeing Co.’s top-selling 737 Max family of airliners after evidence emerged showing a flight that crashed Sunday in Ethiopia may have experienced the same problem as a plane that went down five months...
Boeing crisis grows as Singapore and Australia ground 737 Max 8
Boeing Co. is facing a growing crisis of confidence over its 737 Max jet, as regulators and airlines from Singapore to Australia move to ground or block the plane following two deadly crashes in five months.
A day after U.S...