A bird caught in the engine which caught fire in flight and the plane was forced to crash emergency landing in New Zealand: that’s what’s called a bird strike. The case history of “incredible” accidents by Boeing it lengthens and ties up the thread again with a forgettable start to 2024. A 737 airliner Virgin Australia, in fact, was forced to land at Invercargil airport last Monday. Headed to Melbourne with 67 passengers and six crew on board, the plane had taken off from Queenstown Airport on New Zealand’s South Island.
In recent days, however, the Federal Aviation Administration (Do) of the United States is investigating the accident that occurred in April of a Boeing 737 Max of Southwestwhich risked crashing off the coast ofHawaii due to adverse weather conditions. No problem for passengers, with the exception of the man who fell ill on board the Singapore Airlines 777, forced to make an emergency landing after severe turbulence.
These are just the latest episodes of a black series opened in January by the door that exploded on an Alaska Airlines flight. Result: an investigation opened and the CEO of Boeing, Dave Calhoun, appeared before the Senate for the first time in his 4 years at the helm of the company, a position he will leave at the end of the year. Some senators leveled accusations of corruption during the hearing, in which a former Boeing employee accused the company of “throwing” defective planes: according to Reutersthere would even be another witness who could confirm the accusations.
In a report released by the commission before the hearing, the man said that his “job managing the non-compliant parts has become significantly more complex and demanding” following the resumption of production of the Max in 2020, after two fatal accidents. He then explained that “the number of noncompliance reports has increased 300% since before the Alaska accident and that the 737 program has missed parts that were intentionally withheld from the FAA during an inspection.
