Boeing’s 737 Max Problems: Skift Timeline
Photo Credit: Image from the NTSB investigation of the Jan. 5 accident involving Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on a Boeing 737-9 Max. Flickr / National Transportation Safety Board
Skift Take
Boeing's rough January 2024 was marked by the blowout aboard an Alaska Airlines flight, but that's far from its only major problem.
The January blowout on a Boeing Max 9 on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was just the latest in the series of issues Boeing has had with its Max aircraft.
That incident drove the Federal Aviation Administration to order the temporary grounding of certain Boeing 737 Maxes and increase oversight of the planemaker. The FAA said on January 24 that it's halting any production expansion of the 737 Max.
Alaska and United, which fly the Max 9 in the U.S., are now back to flying the jet after canceling thousands of flights throughout January. But that won't be the end of the story: Investigations are ongoing, as is the political fallout.
Here's a timeline from Skift news coverage of how we got here.
October 2018: Boeing 737 Max 8 Crashes in IndonesiaLion Air flight JT610, a Boeing 737 Max 8 jet, crashed into the sea off Jakarta shortly after departing on a domestic flight, killing all 189 passengers. Investigators said automated systems probably b
