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Alaska Airlines aircraft sits in the airline's hangar at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Jan. 10, 2024, in SeaTac, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

Alaska Airlines resumes operations after tech outage grounds all flights

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National Transportation Safety Board chairman Jennifer Homendy speaks during a meeting about Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

NTSB chair says systemic failures led to door plug flying off Boeing 737 Max plane midflight

By Josh Funk - Associated Press

The debris of an airplane sticks out of a building after it crashed in India's northwestern city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state, Thursday, June 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Boeing’s troubled era has dimmed the prospects of a preeminent American manufacturer

Associated Press

This photo released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows the door plug that fell from Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on Jan. 8, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (National Transportation Safety Board via AP, File)

Boeing still needs a culture change to put safety above profits, according to the head of the FAA

Associated Press

Alaska Airlines planes are shown parked at gates with Mount Rainier in the background at sunrise, March 1, 2021, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Alaska Airlines jet hits eagle, forced to turn back to Anchorage

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Alaska Airlines planes are shown parked at gates with Mount Rainier in the background on March 1, 2021, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Alaska Airlines grounds flights at Seattle briefly due to tech outage

Associated Press

This photo released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows an opening in the fuselage where a door plug fell from Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, on Jan. 7, 2024, in Portland, Ore. On Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, the National Transportation Safety Board opens a two-day hearing on the blowout of a door plug from an Alaska Airlines flight traveling 16,000 feet above Oregon. (National Transportation Safety Board via AP, File)

Witnesses will tell a federal safety board about the blowout on a Boeing 737 Max earlier this year

By David Koenig - Associated Press

A Boeing 737 Max jet prepares to land at Boeing Field following a test flight in Seattle, Sept. 30, 2020. Boeing announced plans late Sunday, June 30, 2024, to acquire Spirit AeroSystems for $4.7 billion in an all-stock transaction for the manufacturing firm. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Under pressure on plane safety, Boeing is buying stressed supplier Spirit for $4.7 billion

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Boeing 737 Max airplanes, including one belonging to TUI Group, left, sit parked at a storage lot, Monday, April 26, 2021, near Boeing Field in Seattle. Boeing reports earnings on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Boeing posts a $355 million loss as the plane maker tries to dig out from under its latest crisis

By David Koenig - Associated Press

Boeing 737 Max airplanes, including one belonging to TUI Group, left, sit parked at a storage lot, Monday, April 26, 2021, near Boeing Field in Seattle. Boeing reports earnings on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Boeing posts a $355 million loss as the plane maker tries to dig out from under its latest crisis

By David Koenig - Associated Press

An airplane flies over a sign on Boeing's 737 delivery center, Oct. 19, 2015, at Boeing Field in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Boeing put under Senate scrutiny during back-to-back hearings on aircraft maker’s safety culture

By David Koenig - Associated Press

Boeing CEO David Calhoun speaks briefly with reporters after a meeting in the office of Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 24, 2024. A Senate subcommittee has opened an investigation into the safety of Boeing jetliners, intensifying safety concerns about the company’s aircraft. The panel has summoned Boeing's CEO, Calhoun, to a hearing next week where a company engineer, Sam Salehpour, is expected to detail safety concerns about the manufacture and assembly of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Congress summons Boeing’s CEO to testify on its jetliner safety following new whistleblower charges

By David Hamilton - Associated Press

A commercial airliner approaches Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, Feb. 21, 2024, in Norridge, Ill. Cracked windshields on jetliners and engine problems that cause flight delays don't normally attract much attention, but routine and rare problems with passenger planes are attracting an unusual amount of news coverage. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

With all the recent headlines about panels and tires falling off planes, is flying safe?

By David Koenig - Associated Press

Alaska Airlines aircraft sit in the airline's hangar at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in SeaTac, Wash. Boeing has acknowledged in a letter to Congress that it cannot find records for work done on a door panel that blew out on an Alaska Airlines flight over Oregon two months ago. Ziad Ojakli, Boeing executive vice president and chief government lobbyist, wrote to Sen. Maria Cantwell on Friday, March 8 saying, “We have looked extensively and have not found any such documentation.” (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

FBI tells passengers on the plane that lost a panel in flight they might be crime victims

By David Koenig - Associated Press

Alaska Airlines aircraft sit in the airline's hangar at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in SeaTac, Wash. Boeing has acknowledged in a letter to Congress that it cannot find records for work done on a door panel that blew out on an Alaska Airlines flight over Oregon two months ago. Ziad Ojakli, Boeing executive vice president and chief government lobbyist, wrote to Sen. Maria Cantwell on Friday, March 8 saying, “We have looked extensively and have not found any such documentation.” (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Boeing says it can’t find work records related to door panel that blew out on Alaska Airlines flight

By Gene Johnson - Associated Press