A Boeing engineer filed an internal complaint alleging that company managers rejected a backup system that might have alerted pilots to problems linked to two deadly crashes involving the 737 Max jet, according to published reports. Boeing declined to comment ...

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Pilot-union leaders at Southwest Airlines say it could be February or March before their airline resumes flights using the Boeing 737 Max. That’s much later than projected by either Southwest or Boeing. Union officials said the grounded plane’s return will ...

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The Pentagon is pulling the plug on a billion-dollar, technically troubled project to build a better weapon that would destroy incoming missiles. The move is aimed in part at considering new approaches to missile defense at a time of rapid ...

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Airbus is stretching its lead over Boeing in aircraft deliveries as Boeing continues to be held back by the grounding of its 737 Max. Chicago-based Boeing said it delivered 19 planes in July, down from 39 in July 2018. It ...

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Boeing executives apologized Monday to airlines and families of victims of 737 Max crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, as the U.S. plane maker struggles to regain the trust of regulators, pilots and the global traveling public. Some victims’ families welcomed ...

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A Kuwaiti wholesaler is not entitled to a $10 million commission on the sale of 16 Apache helicopters to the Kuwaiti government, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said. The court found that the contract between a defense contractor and the wholesaler expired more than two years before the sale took place. Al-Khaldiya Electronics and Electrical Equipment Co. and McDonnell Douglas International Sales Corp., a subsidiary of The Boeing Co., agreed Al-Khaldiya would solicit and promote sales or leases of McDonnell Douglas products.

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A group of seven businesses in Missouri, including giants Anheuser-Busch, Monsanto and Boeing Co., were again denied a motion to intervene in a Clean Water Act enforcement action filed against the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District by the federal and state governments, according to a federal appeals court ruling Monday. The United States and the state of Missouri filed a complaint alleging the St. Louis sewer district discharged raw sewage into local waterways from 2000 to 2005.

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The U.S. was justified in canceling a contract for General Dynamics and Boeing to develop the A-12 Navy jet fighter, a federal appeals court said in a ruling that may cost the companies more than $2.8 billion. The U.S. Court ...

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The board of directors of the St. Charles Chamber of Commerce has come out in support of continued congressional funding of two Boeing Co. defense projects that employ thousands of local residents. Boeing recently approached the chamber about lobbying Congress ...

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When you turn on your radio don’t be surprised to hear your mayor or chamber of commerce president talking with the program host about the importance of getting Congress to fund two military programs important to Boeing Co.’s operations in ...

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Lawmakers from both parties introduced legislation in the House and Senate on Wednesday aimed at limiting the U.S. Justice Department’s ability to invoke national security to block lawsuits accusing the government of misconduct. The measures would bolster the power of ...

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