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Boeing Sees Biggest Delivery Month Since 2023
Things Are
Looking Up
for Boeing
Jul 9, 2025 1:30 AM CDT

Things Are Looking Up for Boeing

Company posts best quarterly delivery numbers since 2018 crisis

(Newser) - Last month, Boeing delivered 60 planes, its highest monthly number since December 2023—the month before a door plug on a 737 Max 9 blew out during a flight, prompting a wave of safety concerns and production slowdowns. The June figure includes 42 of its 737 Max jets, which...

'We Really Dodged a Bullet' as Plane Part Falls in Driveway

No injuries reported after Delta plane's mid-flight loss of wing flap over Raleigh

(Newser) - Delta Air Lines is investigating after a piece of a wing flap from one of its jets turned up in the driveway of a home in Raleigh, North Carolina, the FAA confirmed Wednesday. The part was traced to Delta Flight 3247, a Boeing 737-900 that flew from Atlanta to...

FAA Says Newark Airport Should Be OK by October

Staff shortages caused another ground stop Wednesday

(Newser) - The head of the Federal Aviation Administration says he is confident that the issues plaguing Newark Liberty International Airport will be fixed—but it's not going to happen overnight. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy "has been very clear with me that we need to fix this, and we're...

Pentagon Hotline With DC Tower Hasn't Worked in 3 Years

Revelation comes after deadly crash and a near miss

(Newser) - Ronald Reagan National Airport has seen a deadly crash between an Army helicopter and a passenger plane, as well as a near miss , since the start of the year. While investigations into both continue, a Senate hearing this week revealed a surprising fact: A hotline between the Pentagon and...

Newark Airport's Problems Just Deepened: 'Pure Insanity'

FAA says just 3 traffic controllers guided planes at airport on Monday, instead of the preferred 14

(Newser) - In addition to the "incredibly old" air traffic control setup that's plaguing Newark Liberty International Airport, leading to frightening recent outages of the radar system used there, the New Jersey travel hub is also suffering from an air traffic controller shortage that's causing concern. The Federal Aviation...

FAA Slows Traffic to Newark While It Fixes Major Issues

Old copper phone lines may have caused communications breakdown last week

(Newser) - The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that it plans to upgrade the technology used to get radar data to air traffic controllers directing planes to the troubled Newark, New Jersey, airport, and improve staffing to alleviate problems that have caused hundreds of flights to be canceled there. At the same...

NTSB: Pilot in Fatal Crash May Have Tried to Avoid a Dog

Daniel Bunker died in accident in remote Nanwalek, Alaska, after Cessna slid off runway into water

(Newser) - A deadly plane accident in remote Alaska may have been caused by the pilot trying to avoid a dog on the runway. Per an FAA report on the Cessna 207 that went down on Monday afternoon, the small plane "crashed for unknown reasons" as it was attempting to land,...

Senator Slams an 'Unbelievably Dangerous' Close Call

Minnesota's Amy Klobuchar isn't happy about Air Force jet that came way too close to Delta flight

(Newser) - Passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight from the DC area to Minneapolis had quite the close call on Friday: NBC News reports that Flight 2983, which had 136 people on board, took off around 3pm local time from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and just avoided a collision with...

FAA Shuts Helicopter Route in Use During DC Collision

Moves make temporary restrictions permanent after crash that killed 67

(Newser) - Aviation officials on Friday announced permanent curbs on helicopter traffic near Reagan National Airport, the site of a collision involving an Army Black Hawk and American Airlines flight that killed 67 people in January. The portion of the route taken by the Black Hawk will be closed, and restrictions on...

Report: Musk's Starlink Is Close to Taking Over FAA Contract

Insiders say agency plans to cancel Verizon's $2.4B air traffic communication upgrade

(Newser) - The Federal Aviation Administration is close to canceling a massive Verizon air traffic control project and handing it to one of Elon Musk's companies, insiders tell the Washington Post report. Verizon was awarded the $2.4 billion contract in 2023 to upgrade the country's air traffic communication system....

FAA Puts Musk's Starlink to the Test

Agency said it's testing internet platform at 3 sites; Musk claims Verizon's current tech 'is not working'

(Newser) - The Federal Aviation Administration says it's having connection issues in US airspace, but it thinks it knows just the company to remedy it. The agency announced on Monday that it will be testing three satellite internet terminals from the SpaceX-owned Starlink at three sites in the United States: one...

Trump Begins Firing Staffers at the FAA

Purge of several hundred started via email Friday night

(Newser) - The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal midair collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Probationary workers were targeted in late-night emails on Friday notifying them they'd been fired,...

Black Hawk May Have Been Off Course, Too High

FAA shuts down helicopter traffic around National Airport

(Newser) - Helicopter flights around Reagan National Airport are now prohibited, federal officials announced Friday. The flight path along the Potomac River that an Army helicopter was on when it collided with a passenger plane in Washington on Wednesday was implemented to keep helicopters below planes flying in the area, the New ...

FAA Says Controller Had Two Assignments

Preliminary report calls tower staffing 'not normal' for conditions

(Newser) - A preliminary FAA report on the midair collision Wednesday night in Washington describes staffing in the air traffic control tower at that time as "not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic." Assignments that usually were split between two controllers were being handled by one,...

Turks and Caicos Reports Damage From SpaceX Debris

FAA grounds Starship during investigation of breakup

(Newser) - The Federal Aviation Administration has joined officials in Turks and Caicos in investigating damage apparently caused by debris from the breakup of SpaceX's rocket during a test flight on Thursday. The FAA has grounded the Starship rocket in the meantime, NBC News reports. No injuries have been reported, the...

Blue Origin's 'New Glenn' Gets Final Thumbs-Up From FAA

Rocket launch by Jeff Bezos' space company cleared by federal agency

(Newser) - Jeff Bezos' newest rocket is now one step closer to liftoff. On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration said it granted a commercial license to launch Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, the first step to be completed before the company can send up national security satellites, reports Reuters . The license,...

American Airlines Briefly Halts All Flights on Busy Day

Airline had a technical glitch on Christmas Eve

(Newser) - Talk about miserable timing: All American Airlines flights had to be temporarily grounded Tuesday morning, one of the busiest travel days of the year. Flights have resumed, however. The airline experienced some kind of systemwide technical glitch, and the FAA ordered all American Airlines flights grounded as a result shortly...

FAA Issues Temporary New Jersey Drone Ban

'Deadly force' can be used in 22 restricted areas, agency says

(Newser) - The Federal Aviation Administration has banned drones from airspace over much of New Jersey following thousands of reports of unusual activity . The monthlong ban on drone flights in what the FAA calls "National Defense Airspace" began late Wednesday and will last until Jan. 17, NJ.com reports. The ban...

Plane Departing One NYC Airport Swiftly Lands at Another

Apparent bird strike forces American Airlines jet from LGA to make emergency landing at JFK

(Newser) - Anyone who's ever taken off from New York City's LaGuardia Airport knows how close to the water the runways are—and the birds that hang around that water and occasionally pose a threat to planes . Passengers on American Airlines Flight 1722 found that out the hard way on...

Your Taxi Could Soon Be Electric—and Airborne
Air Taxis Move
Closer to US Takeoff
Oct 23, 2024 2:00 PM CDT

Air Taxis Move Closer to US Takeoff

FAA issues final rule on electric 'powered-lift aircraft'—and airlines are interested

(Newser) - Federal regulators gave a strong push to electric-powered air taxis Tuesday by issuing a final rule for operating the aircraft and how pilots will be trained to fly them. The head of the Federal Aviation Administration, Mike Whitaker, said the rule recognizes air taxis as an entirely new type of...

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