At Boeing, a sick worker prompted the company to send him and others home and scrub their work area.
More than one million passengers have flown in or out of Everett. Is it time for bigger airplanes?
Managers worry about not having enough workers when the company restarts output of the trouble plane.
Women in business
New Tech Industries, a Mukilteo aerospace firm, hopes to bring all its employees back to work soon.
Some pilots were confused about how the autopilot behaved and failed to finish emergency checklists.
The company broke a community noise curfew during lengthy engine tests at Boeing Field.
A Dec. 20 mission missed critical maneuvers and flew into the incorrect orbit.
The company wants a tax break temporarily repealed. Some don’t want to give it back without new conditions.
It will be ended to avoid a trade dispute. But workers want Boeing to make changes if it’s later restored.
Boeing is currently storing more than 250 Max airplanes at Grant County International Airport.
In January, the company marked an all-time low with zero new orders.
The ungrounding of the Boeing aircraft could be pushed to late June at the earliest, one source said.
The purchase includes many Boeing 737 Maxs, and maybe some Airbus A321 jets.
Boeing said there’s no way to know how many planes have the same problem until they’re all inspected.
The company hopes the move will resolve a trade dispute involving European rival Airbus.
The company did not say what the objects were found, but one report said they included tools and rags.
Naval Air Station Whidbey Island is in the process of increasing training flights by 400 percent.
“This is being shoved down our throats,” said one SPEEA council rep.
The vulnerability could lead to an emergency similar to the one that brought down two jets.
Paine Field was voted 8th-best among a selection of small airports, some of which aren’t all that small.
