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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.
The airline called it “concerning” but cautioned that more steps over many months are necessary before a strike is even possible.
The FBI found and arrested Desmond D. Bostick, 25, more than seven months after the flight landed in Seattle on June 20, 2023, according to prosecutors and court documents.
The pilot took no action after checking the plane’s flight instruments, which indicated everything was normal, the lawsuit claims.
FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker suggested that Boeing — under pressure from airlines to produce large numbers of planes — is not paying enough attention to safety.
The National Transportation Safety Board’s 19-page report is not intended to render judgment on who, if anyone, made mistakes that may have led to the incident on the Boeing 737-9 MAX.
Improperly drilled holes were discovered by Spirit AeroSystems, a major supplier that provides Boeing with fuselages.
The agency signed off on the safety of the Alaska Airlines jet that lost a part of the wall mid-flight this month.
Alaska and United airlines have joined Boeing in saying they’re committed to safety. Some analysts and aviation experts, however, still have concerns about the Max 9.
Boeing says it is withdrawing a request for a safety exemption needed to certify a new model of its 737 Max airliner.
Alaska Airlines said it expects inspections to be completed by the end of next week, allowing the airline to operate a full flight schedule.
In December, Boeing asked the FAA to exempt the 737 MAX 7′s engine anti-ice system from certain safety standards it fails to meet.