Boeing’s chief executive on Wednesday said the company doesn’t fly airplanes that aren’t safe, as he arrived on Capitol Hill for meetings with U.S. lawmakers amid scrutiny of the aviation giant. Safety concerns involving Boeing have multiplied after a panel tore off a 737 Max 9 jet flown by Alaska Airlines this month. On Tuesday, United Airlines Holdings Inc.
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said it was rethinking its longer-term plans for Boeing’s
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biggest 737 Max jet, the Max 10, after the government’s grounding of dozens of Max 9s.
Now read: United pulls plans for Boeing’s biggest 737 Max jet, after Max 9 groundings prove to be ‘straw that broke the camel’s back’ Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun was scheduled to meet with Sens. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, and Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, on Wednesday. “We fly safe planes,” Calhoun told a group of reporters on Capitol Hill. “We don’t put airplanes in the air that we don’t have 100% confidence in.” He said he was meeting lawmakers “in the spirit of transparency” and to answer their questions. Ben Minicucci, the chief executive of Alaska Airlines, said in an interview with NBC News published Tuesday that inspectors found loose bolts on “many” of its Boeing 737 Max 9s after the mid-flight blowout. On Saturday, a Boeing 757 plane operated by Delta Air Lines lost a nose wheel as it prepared to take off from Atlanta’s main airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Bill Peters contributed
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UAL,
+1.36%
said it was rethinking its longer-term plans for Boeing’s
BA,
+1.06%
biggest 737 Max jet, the Max 10, after the government’s grounding of dozens of Max 9s.
Now read: United pulls plans for Boeing’s biggest 737 Max jet, after Max 9 groundings prove to be ‘straw that broke the camel’s back’ Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun was scheduled to meet with Sens. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, and Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, on Wednesday. “We fly safe planes,” Calhoun told a group of reporters on Capitol Hill. “We don’t put airplanes in the air that we don’t have 100% confidence in.” He said he was meeting lawmakers “in the spirit of transparency” and to answer their questions. Ben Minicucci, the chief executive of Alaska Airlines, said in an interview with NBC News published Tuesday that inspectors found loose bolts on “many” of its Boeing 737 Max 9s after the mid-flight blowout. On Saturday, a Boeing 757 plane operated by Delta Air Lines lost a nose wheel as it prepared to take off from Atlanta’s main airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Bill Peters contributed
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