Boeing Co. Chief Executive Officer Dave Calhoun is leaving the embattled planemaker, stepping down with the company’s chairman and head of commercial airplanes as it struggles to contain a manufacturing quality and safety crisis amid regulatory scrutiny.
Bonds of Boeing Co. and its supplier Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc. slid in secondary trading Monday morning after a fuselage panel blew off a 737 Max 9 aircraft during an Alaska Airlines flight Friday.
The Japan Airlines Co. passenger aircraft that burned on the runway of Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Jan. 2 was the first civilian aircraft with an outer structure made largely of carbon composites to be lost in a fire. That gives investigators and aircraft designers an opportunity to collect vital information about the material’s response to stress and intense heat. Though the Airbus SE A350 aircraft quickly erupted in flames after colliding with a smaller Japanese coast guard plane, all 367 passen
Comac unveiled two variants of its single-aisle C919 jet at an airshow in Shanghai last week, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Chinese planemaker looks to broaden the model’s reach to more customers.