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Passengers on an Alaska Airlines flight who experienced a midair blowout earlier this year have received a letter from the FBI saying they may be crime victims. “As a Victim Specialist with the Seattle Division, I’m contacting you because we have identified you as a possible victim of a crime,” according to the FBI letter…

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After recently visiting Boeing’s facilities, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Whitaker said he found there are issues with the company’s safety culture but expects the aviation giant will get its act together. “There are issues around the safety culture in Boeing. Their priorities have been focused on production and not on safety and quality,”…

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An external panel was found to be missing from a Boeing United Airlines flight after it landed in southern Oregon on Friday. United Flight 433, which departed from San Francisco at 10:20 a.m., landed in Medford, Ore., just before noon. The external panel was determined to be missing from the underside of the Boeing 737-800…

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The leader of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) mentioned on Wednesday that the absence of Boeing documents will make the investigation into the midair blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight from earlier this year more difficult. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy wrote a letter to Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to provide an update to the Senate Committee on…

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John “Mitch” Barnett, 62, a whistleblower in the midst of giving depositions alleging Boeing retaliated against him for complaints about quality lapses, was found dead from a gunshot wound Saturday in Charleston, South Carolina.