Inspections of grounded Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft are already underway at some airlines. But it seems the Alaska Airlines jet that lost a door plug Friday night was just the canary in the coal mine for issues with the plane’s finishes. United Airlines, the largest operator of the MAX 9 in the U.S., with […]
A charter plane grounded in France amid a human trafficking investigation has arrived in India carrying 276 people. More than two dozen others requested asylum in France. The unmarked Legend Airlines A340 had been blocked inside the rural Valtry airport in Champagne for four days where it had landed en route to Nicaragua in an […]
PARIS (AP) — A charter plane sequestered while carrying 303 Indians to Nicaragua was authorized Sunday to leave the French airport where it has been grounded for four days for a human trafficking investigation. A lawyer for the airline said the plane would take many of the stranded passengers back to India on Monday. Local […]
CNN — Hundreds of Southwest Airlines flights were delayed after technical issues that prompted the airline to temporarily halt its operations on Tuesday morning. Southwest said the flight delays were the result of “data connection issues resulting from a firewall failure,” a problem that led to a brief ground stop. The Federal Aviation Administration initiated […]