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Hundreds of Boeing 787 jets are to be inspected after an incident where a plane suddenly dropped and injured 50 people
A Latam Airlines Boeing 787 suddenly dropped 400 feet after the captain's seat, found to have a loo…
Pete Syme
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An engine cover rips off a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737, forcing an emergency landing
A panel covering one of the engines on a Boeing 737 operated by Southwest Airlines tore away mid-fl…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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The FAA's investigation into Boeing is getting wider as it flags another plane model for door-plug inspections
The FAA warned operators of the Boeing 737-900ER to inspect the door plug for loose bolts, although…
Pete Syme
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Boeing is adding more 737 airplane inspections as company says it's 'clear that we are not where we need to be'
Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Stan Deal said the firm is "taking a hard look" at its quality prac…
Sarah Jackson
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Spirit Airlines just canceled almost 200 flights. Customers will be impacted for 'several days' as it scrambles to finish safety inspections.
Spirit Airlines said the cancelations will impact customers for "several days."
Katie Hawkinson
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A major Chinese airline may delay the delivery of an order of Boeing 737 Max jets to do extra safety inspections amid the door plug blowout saga
China Southern Airlines had been preparing to receive its first 737 Max delivery in four years, but…
Pete Syme
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Supplier of Boeing 737 Max planes finds misdrilled holes during production, impacting 50 aircraft, report says
Spirit AeroSystems, a supplier of Boeing 737 Max components, discovered misdrilled holes on 50 airc…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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The pilot seat could have caused a Boeing 787 to suddenly drop midair. It wouldn't be the first time a similarly bizarre event happened to a widebody aircraft.
Ten years ago, a modified Airbus A330 military aircraft plummeted 4,400 feet when a camera got stuc…
Taylor Rains
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The CEO of one of Boeing's biggest customers slammed the planemaker over missed deliveries
Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary told investors in an earnings call that he thinks Boeing management is …
Taylor Rains
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Airlines are bracing for more summer travel chaos after one of the world's biggest aircraft engine makers recalled over 1,000 engines
Pratt & Whitney discovered some of its powder metal is contaminated, so 1,200 engines used on Airbu…
Pete Syme
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A first-of-its-kind bomber test 20 years before World War II spelled the beginning of the end of the battleship era
In July 1921, the US military got a glimpse of the tactics that would transform naval warfare over …
Benjamin Brimelow
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The US Navy is spending another $7.5 million as it decides what to do with the first nuke-powered carrier to leave service
The US Navy has spent years and millions of dollars deciding how to dismantle Enterprise, and a sma…
Courtney Mabeus
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How the US Navy's 'flight deck choreographers' keep aircraft carriers operating
Aviation boatswain's mates (handling), known as "yellow shirts," are at the center of the action ab…
Petty Officer 3rd Class Ahron…
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The US Navy now knows why the water on an aircraft carrier looked and smelled strange. It had wastewater in it.
The Navy found E. coli in the water on USS Abraham Lincoln but said the bacteria was unrelated to t…
Jake Epstein
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The British navy's aircraft carriers are back after 'a bit of a hiatus,' but one of them has an uncertain future
The Royal Navy has been rebuilding its "big, corporate knowledge" of carrier operations, an officer…
Christopher Woody
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The US Navy found water that looked and smelled weird on an aircraft carrier last month, and it still has no idea why
E. coli bacteria was found in the water on USS Abraham Lincoln, but Navy officials said this was un…
Jake Epstein
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US Navy grounds some of its planes after finding faulty parts in aircraft ejection seats
The defect was first discovered by the parts manufacturer, and replacement parts are already being …
Abbie Shull
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New US Navy supercarrier withstood the shock of multiple 40,000-pound bomb blasts, but some things did break, captain says
"We did break things, but we will fix them," Capt. Paul Lanzilotta, the USS Gerald R. Ford's comman…