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Boeing reshuffles top engineers amid 737 MAX crisis; 300 models grounded, delivery of about 5,000 planes on hold
•Boeing shares rose 0.3 percent on Tuesday, to close at $373.43. They are still down more than 11 percent since the crash in Ethiopia, wiping out over $25 billion off its market share.
Ethiopian Airlines crash: France starts investigation into Boeing 737 MAX black boxes, company halts deliveries of aircraft
•The MAX has been grounded worldwide following the disaster — the second involving the model in five months — and the fallout has left the company, regulators and airlines scrambling to respond.
Pilot of ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines plane requested permission to return to airport minutes after taking off: Report
•An airline spokesman has said pilot of the Ethiopian Airlines plane was given permission to return. But the plane crashed minutes later, outside Addis Ababa, killing all 157 on board
Ethiopian Airlines, Lion Air plane crash: Anti-stalling system on Boeing's 737 Max 8 under scanner as countries ground aircraft
•Boeing has described the Max series as its fastest-selling family of planes, with more than 5,000 orders placed to date from about 100 customers.
Ethiopian Airlines crash: US Federal Aviation Administration faces mounting criticism for backing airworthiness of Boeing's 737 Max jets
•The rest of the world typically takes it cues from the FAA, long considered the world's gold standard for aircraft safety.
Ethiopian Airlines crash: US says Boeing 737 MAX safe to fly while China, Indonesia ground fleet; investigators find two black boxes
•The United States told airlines it was safe to fly 737 MAX 8 planes on Monday as investigators found two black box recorders that will help piece together the final moments of an Ethiopian Airlines jet before it plunged to the ground on Sunday.
China orders domestic airlines to ground all Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft after Ethiopian Airlines crash
•Noting the "similarities" between the two accidents, China's civil aviation administration said domestic airlines had until 6:00 pm local time to ground all 737 MAX 8 aircraft.
Indonesia Lion Air crash: US aviation regulator orders airlines operating Boeing 377 Max to update training, manuals
•Boeing Co said in a statement that it had alerted pilots to the issue. The FAA said it was mandating that airlines follow the Boeing bulletin. The US planemaker said investigators probing the Lion Air crash off the coast of Indonesia, in which all 189 on board were killed, had found that one of the "angle of attack" sensors on the Boeing 737 MAX jet had provided erroneous data.
Air India grounds all Boeing 787 Dreamliners after US decision
Fp Archives •As of now there is no clarity on when the Dreamliners will be back in service. Boeing has to satisfy everyone with safety standards.
US authorities ground Boeing 787 Dreamliners over battery concerns
Fp Archives •The US Federal Aviation Administration said on Wednesday it would temporarily ground Boeing Co's 787s after a second incident involving battery failures caused one of the Dreamliner passenger jets to make an emergency landing in Japan.