Boeing says it's turning things around a year after the Alaska Airlines incident
Boeing said Friday that it had hit several internal targets on safety and quality control despite a series of deadly crashes, near catastrophes and embarrassing incidents that has seen its share price plunge and airlines around the world pull some of its planes.
Boeing said Friday that it had hit several internal targets on safety and quality control despite a series of deadly crashes, near catastrophes and embarrassing incidents that has seen its share price plunge and airlines around the world pull some of its planes.
The company said in a news release that it had made improvements “in multiple areas including safety culture, training, simplifying their processes, and eliminating defects.”
The announcement comes less than a week after the latest deadly crash involving one of its aircraft. In the worst air disaster in South Korean history, 179 people were killed when a Boeing 737-800 belly-landed and skidded off the runway at Muan International Airport.
Even so, in a section titled ‘Elevating Safety & Quality Culture,’ Boeing said it has “addressed over 70% of action items in commercial airplanes production based on employee feedback” and implemented key criteria “across Final Assembly for the 737, 787 and portions of 767 and 777” to “mitigate risk.”
It has nonetheless been a difficult year for the company that — along with Europe’s Airbus — exercises a virtual duopoly over the airline market. In early 2024, a crucial fuselage panel blew out of an Alaska Airlines jet, its largest union stopped producing airplanes, and problems with its Starliner space capsule have left two astronauts stranded in orbit.
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