Boeing 737 MAX airplanes are pictured outside a Boeing factory on March 25, 2024 in Renton, Wash. A midair door plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight and subsequent grounding of flights ...

The Boeing 737 MAX has had more issues than any other aircraft program in recent history. Yet, the type remains the most popular 737 generation of all time, and it's still a fierce competitor to ...

The Max version of Boeing’s bestselling 737 airplane has been the source of persistent troubles for the company since two of the jets crashed, one in Indonesia in 2018 and another in Ethiopia in ...

While it feels like Boeing has been the subject of an endless stream of worrying quality control discoveries, it's been 18 months since a door plug blew out on a Boeing 737 Max at 14,830 feet over ...

Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems — the company that made and installed the door plug — are redesigning them with another backup system to keep the panels in place even if the bolts are missing ...