They won't go bankrupt. They sell too much to the government and have retooled themselves as a lobbying group. Eventually they will get a big government bailout and economists will tell us how great that is.
I saw a pilot reply earlier and he said that it's an emergency exit designed for larger passenger configurations of the plane but should have been properly plugged in this configuration.....I think it's time to pull McDonnell Douglas out of Boeing and start again.
Alaska Airlines has grounded all Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after a window and a chunk of fuselage blew out on one of the aircraft in mid-air shortly after takeoff.
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 had to make an emergency landing shortly after taking off from Portland, Oregon, on Friday.
“Alaska Airlines flight 1282 from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California, experienced an incident this evening soon after departure,” the company said.
The plane was diverted after rising to 16,000ft (4,875 metres) about six minutes after taking off at 5.07 pm on Friday, according to flight tracking data from the FlightAware website.
That particular Boeing 737 Max 9 rolled off the assembly line and received its certification two months ago, according to online FAA records.
The Max is the newest version of Boeing’s venerable 737, a twin-engine, single-aisle plane frequently used on US domestic flights.
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I'm okay if they're grounded for good. Or, fuck that; let us choose the airplane we want/will fly in. Tickets on the max8/max9 will go through the floor, and ideally then the airline will have to offload that trash.