All the headlines from our Aerospace Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 22 2024 // The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has recommended that airlines operating Boeing 737-900ER jets inspect door plugs to ensure that they are properly secured after some operators reported unspecified issues with...
Jan 16 2024 // Boeing Co. was sued by passengers on an Alaska Airlines Inc. flight that was forced to make an emergency landing in Portland, Oregon, last week after a mid-air blowout of a so-called door plug on the 737 Max 9 jet.The...
Jan 12 2024 // The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is launching a formal investigation into the Boeing 737 MAX 9 after a cabin panel blew off an Alaska Airlines flight last week in mid-air, forcing an emergency landing, the...
Jan 10 2024 // The decision by Alaska Airlines to stop flying one of its planes over the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii due to warnings from a cabin-pressurization system — yet keep flying it over land — is raising questions about whether...
Jan 8 2024 // A delay in the inspection of grounded Boeing jets ended on Monday after U.S. officials retrieved a panel that blew off an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 airliner and shares in the planemaker sagged on concerns over the troubled...
Jan 5 2024 // Rocket and satellite maker SpaceX on Thursday sued a U.S. labor board to block its case accusing the company of illegally firing employees who sent a letter to company executives calling CEO Elon Musk “a distraction...
Jan 4 2024 // Rocket and satellite maker SpaceX on Wednesday was accused by a U.S. labor agency of unlawfully firing eight employees for circulating a letter calling founder and CEO Elon Musk a “distraction and...
Dec 18 2023 // Widely disruptive, large-scale hacks are surging.After a lull in 2022, ransomware attacks on high-value targets such as big companies, banks, hospitals or government agencies, have seen a “massive uptick” this...
Dec 15 2023 // A report out this week from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows the Arctic summer surface air temperatures were the warmest on record, with some areas, including northern Alaska and Canada, 7.2...
Dec 5 2023 // Ending on Nov. 30, the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season saw 20 named storms, ranking fourth for the most-named storms in a year since 1950, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said.Seven storms were...
Nov 15 2023 // Another billion-dollar disaster was confirmed in October, bringing the total to a record 25 such disasters in the first 10 months — the largest number of disasters for any year since NOAA began tracking the events. These...
Nov 13 2023 // One windy night at Elon Musk’s SpaceX facility in McGregor, Texas, Lonnie LeBlanc and his co-workers realized they had a problem.They needed to transport foam insulation to the rocket company’s main hangar but...
Nov 13 2023 // The notorious hacking gang Lockbit has posted what it described as documents belonging to Boeing Co. on its website, two weeks after claiming credit for a cyberattack against the aircraft manufacturer.LockBit recently...
Nov 8 2023 // The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Monday it would hold runway safety meetings at 16 additional airports in the coming weeks after a series of troubling close-call aviation incidents.In August, the FAA...
Nov 6 2023 // Boeing, one of the world’s largest defense and space contractors, said on Wednesday it was investigating a cyber incident that impacted elements of its parts and distribution business and cooperating with a law...
Oct 30 2023 // Boeing Co said on Oct. 27 that it was assessing a claim made by the Lockbit cybercrime gang that it had “a tremendous amount” of sensitive data stolen from the aerospace giant that it would dump online if...
Oct 10 2023 // SpaceX was accused in a lawsuit of discrimination for allegedly paying women and minority employees less than their male and White co-workers.The proposed class action, which cites California’s Equal Pay Act, was...
Sep 11 2023 // The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration wrapped up a technical investigation into SpaceX’s April test launch of its giant Starship rocket, saying in a Friday statement that the company must implement dozens of...
Aug 25 2023 // The U.S. Justice Department sued Elon Musk-owned rocket and satellite company SpaceX on Thursday for allegedly discriminating against asylum recipients and refugees in hiring.“The lawsuit alleges that, from at least...
Aug 22 2023 // The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday it will hold runway safety meetings at 90 airports over the next few weeks after a series of troubling close-call aviation incidents.Earlier this month, the FAA and...