FAA investigating Southwest flight that dropped over ocean in Hawaii
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a Southwest Airlines passenger flight that plunged within several hundred feet of the ocean off Hawaii in April.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a Southwest Airlines passenger flight that plunged within several hundred feet of the ocean off Hawaii in April.
Regulators required company to produce turnaround plan after jetliner suffered blowout of fuselage panel during Alaska Airlines flight in January.
The grounded Boeing jets are coming back into service at Alaska Airlines and United Airlines.
"At the very least, installers missed something," former NTSB member John Goglia said after the door plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 jet. "It calls into question the process."
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said that "we are very, very fortunate" no one happened to be seated in the two adjoining seats to the blown-out door.
The JetBlue captain pointed the nose of his jet up more quickly than normal "due to his surprise about encountering head on landing traffic," the NTSB said.
An Alaska Airlines flight made an emergency diversion to Portland, Oregon, after an off-duty pilot in the cockpit unsuccessfully tried to shut down the plane's engines midflight.
Situation is not an immediate safety issue and planes already flying "can continue operating safely," company said.
Turbulence, which causes planes to suddenly jolt while in flight, is considered a fairly normal occurrence.
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New England artist Noah Kahan is headlining the biggest show of his career at Fenway Park Thursday, and more than 30,000 fans have shown up to see it.
More debris fell from a turbine Thursday morning at the controversial Vineyard Wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod.
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After the I-Team went to Blupoint Healthcare's Newton offices, workers got their paychecks. Days later, their banks said the checks were no good.
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