Boeing posted a fourth-quarter loss of $3.8 billion on Tuesday as a machinists strike and other problems continued to plague the troubled aircraft manufacturer

Four passengers and two crew members were seriously injured Friday when a Washington D.C.-bound United Airlines flight from Nigeria abruptly plunged mid-air, according to dramatic footage and

In an interview with The Seattle Times after reporting grim financial results early Tuesday, Kelly Ortberg said that six months into the job, he thinks Boeing is "starting to turn the corner."

Boeing faced its own challenges. It started 2024 with the hopes of putting its troubled past behind and getting on with aircraft delivery, but the Alaska Airlines midair blowout incident changed the trajectory of its operations for the rest of the year.

"That team has done a great job of improving the overall performance and quality of the fuselages," Boeing's CEO said of Wichita-based Spirit AeroSystems.

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Boeing CEO and President Kelly Ortberg has completed a portfolio review of the embattled aerospace and defense giant’s businesses, and divestitures could begin in six to 12 months, although it will not entail a selloff of the defense and space division.

President Donald Trump spread unfounded claims that the midair collision that killed 67 on Wednesday night — which is in the very early stages of investigation — was the result of diversity, equity and inclusion policies that had been in place since 2013.

The fatal midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter followed a string of near misses at airports over the last several years.

The possibility of a surreal air snafu was not in their cogitation. Nigerians and other passengers heading out of the country to Washington Dulles in DC from Murtala Mohammed Airport on United Airline 613 on Thursday,