Despite the ongoing scrutiny of Boeing aircraft following a panel blowing off an Alaska Airlines plane midflight earlier this month, the Federal Aviation Administration on.
Despite the ongoing scrutiny of Boeing aircraft following a panel blowing off an Alaska Airlines plane midflight earlier this month, the Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday opened up a path for the company’s 737 Max 9s to return to service. The FAA grounded 171 planes after the Alaska Airlines blowout, leading to hundreds of cancellations a day for airlines that rely heavily on the planes, but has now approved an inspection process that, once completed, will allow the planes to return to the sky, CNN reports.