Including the DOD requesting taking over Starship for individual missions.
| Aerospace Digest | | Most read stories from January |
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| First Airbus A350 Hull-Loss After Haneda Runway Incursion | | Jens Flottau | | A Japan Airlines (JAL) Airbus A350-900 and a Japanese Coast Guard De Havilland Canada Dash 8 have been completely destroyed in a ground collision at Tokyo’s Haneda airport shortly after the JAL aircraft’s touch-down. |
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| OPINION Can Boeing’s Misguided Leaders Be Stopped? | | Richard Aboulafia | | Can anything save Boeing from its management? The recent high-profile near-disaster involving an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 MAX is just another small step in Boeing’s downward spiral, and it is far from clear what will arrest it. |
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| FAA Faces Tough Choice On Latest 737-7 Exemption Request | | Sean Broderick | | Boeing’s marathon-like push to earn approval for its 737-7 likely no longer hinges on demonstrating that the model meets all required regulatory standards but instead on convincing the agency that a known noncompliance should be permitted for a few years while the OEM develops a permanent fix. |
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| Ground-Launched Asraam Achieving 90% Hit Rate In Ukraine | | Tony Osborne | | A rapidly developed surface-to-air missile system based on MBDA’s Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile (Asraam) has achieved hit rates of 90% against Russian targets in Ukraine, the UK defense ministry has revealed. |
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| NTSB Eyeing Door Plug Bolts In Alaska 737-9 Accident Probe | | Sean Broderick | | The exit door plug at the center of the Jan. 5 Alaska Airlines accident pivoted up and broke away from the Boeing 737-9 in flight, an NTSB investigator said late Jan. 8, pointing to a problem with bolts used to keep the insert in place. |
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| FAA Orders Halt To Boeing 737 MAX Production Growth Plan | | Guy Norris, Christine Boynton | | As investigations continue into the Jan. 5 inflight loss of an exit door plug on an Alaska Airlines 737-9, the FAA has taken the extraordinary step of denying Boeing permission to continue with its planned production increase of the twinjet. |
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