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  • Family of U.N. consultant killed in Boeing 737 Max crash awarded $28 million by jury

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    A federal court jury has awarded over $28 million to the family of a United Nations consultant who died in the crash of a Boeing 737 Max jetliner in Ethiopia more than six years ago.

    The verdict was reached Wednesday on behalf of the relatives of Shikha Garg after two hours of jury deliberation that capped a weeklong trial in Chicago, where Boeing used to have its headquarters. It was the first civil trial stemming from the March 2019 disaster that killed all 157 people on board Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.

    “We and the family are gratified by the jury’s verdict. It provides public accountability for Boeing’s wrongful conduct,” the family’s lawyers, Shanin Specter and Elizabeth Crawford, said in a statement after the verdict was read in court.

    Boeing will pay an additional $3.45 million to Garg’s husband, Soumya Bhattacharya, as part of a deal between him and the company reached outside of court. That, along with a 26% interest charge, brings the total amount Boeing will pay to Garg’s family to $35.8 million.

    The aircraft maker has negotiated pre-trial settlements in most of the dozens of wrongful death lawsuits filed in connection with the crash and a similar 737 Max disaster five months earlier off the coast of Indonesia, although details of the settlements were confidential and not disclosed. Lawyers say less than a dozen lawsuits remain unresolved.

    In a statement Wednesday, Boeing apologized to all the victims’ families and said it respects their right to pursue their claims in court.

    Jurors weren’t tasked with weighing the aircraft maker’s liability in the crash because Boeing has already accepted responsibility. Instead, they were asked to award damages for matters such as loss of income and grief suffered by Garg’s family.

    Like a number of the other passengers, Garg, a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme, was on her way to attend a U.N. environmental assembly in Nairobi, Kenya.

    At trial, Specter painted a picture for the jury of a young and accomplished PhD candidate who was married just months before she boarded the fatal Ethiopian Airlines flight. A citizen of India, Garg wore on the flight a sari and held flower garlands in line with Indian tradition.

    The then-new Boeing Max crashed minutes after taking off from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. Specter called Garg’s death “senseless” and “preventable.”

    Boeing lawyer Dan Webb, a former U.S. attorney, urged jurors to focus on “fair and reasonable” compensation for Garg’s family. One contentious point was whether Garg suffered pain in her final moments before death, with Boeing arguing that the passengers didn’t experience physical injury before impact.

    “There would not have been time for them to feel any physical pain when they hit the ground,” Webb said.

    The payout awarded to Garg’s family by the jury includes $10 million for the “pain and suffering and emotional distress” she experienced before the crash, according to the family’s lawyers.

    From nearly the moment pilots flying for Ethiopian Airlines took off in their new Boeing jetliner, they encountered problems with the plane. The pilots were bombarded by alarms for six minutes as they fought to fly the plane before entering a final nosedive at nearly 700 miles per hour.

    Two men inspect a large pile of debris piled up by recovery workers as efforts continued at the crash site of Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 on March 11, 2019 in Bishoftu, Ethiopia. The plane was just six minutes into its flight to Nairobi, Kenya when it crashed, killing all 157 passengers and crew on board a day earlier. As a result of the crash, Ethiopia joined China and other countries in grounding their fleets of Boeing 737 Max 8 jets.

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    Days later, all Max jets around the world were grounded. Flights resumed in December 2020, but Indonesia didn’t lift its ban on the Max for another year and Ethiopian Airlines didn’t resume flying the plane until February 2022.

    Amid the trial, a federal judge in Texas approved a Justice Department request to dismiss its long-running criminal case against Boeing in connection with the two 737 Max crashes. In exchange, Boeing says it will pay or invest an additional $1.1 billion toward fines, compensation for victims’ families, and internal safety and quality improvements.

    U.S. prosecutors had charged the company with conspiracy to commit fraud, accusing it of deceiving government regulators about a flight-control system it developed for the 737 Max. In both crashes, the software had pitched the nose of the planes down repeatedly based on faulty readings from a single sensor.

    Last year, the Justice Department said Boeing accepted a plea deal stemming from the crashes after the government determined the company violated an agreement that had protected it from prosecution for more than three years.  The deal only covers wrongdoing by Boeing involving the two deadly crashes. It does not give Boeing immunity for other incidents, including a panel that blew off a Max jetliner during an Alaska Airlines flight in January 2024.

    A scathing report by the House Transportation Committee released in 2020 found multiple Boeing engineers and test pilots expressed concerns about the system that would ultimately be linked to the two deadly 737 Max crashes — and yet those problems were never fixed. The plane was deemed compliant by the FAA according to existing standards, but was “demonstratively unsafe,” casting doubt on the certification process, according to committee investigators.

    “The FAA failed to ensure the safety of the traveling public,” the report found.

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  • United flight’s cockpit window may have been struck by weather balloon, company says

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    A mysterious object that cracked a windshield on a United Airlines flight, injuring a pilot and forcing an emergency landing, may have been a weather balloon.WindBorne, a California start-up focused on advanced weather forecasting and atmospheric data collection, said in a statement Monday it believes one of its balloons likely hit the plane.United Flight 1093, a Boeing 737 traveling from Denver to Los Angeles, landed safely in Utah Thursday with 134 passengers and six crew members onboard, according to the airline.Air traffic control audio from LiveATC.net showed the pilots remained calm and declared an emergency as they diverted to land at Salt Lake City.The first officer in the cockpit was treated for minor injuries upon the plane’s landing, the Salt Lake City Fire Department said.Windborne said it is cooperating with the NTSB and FAA on their investigation.“We immediately rolled out changes to minimize time spent between 30,000 and 40,000 feet,” the company said. “These changes are already live with immediate effect. Additionally, we are further accelerating our plans to use live flight data to autonomously avoid planes, even if the planes are at a non-standard altitude. We are also actively working on new hardware designs to further reduce impact force magnitude and concentration.”The plane later flew to Rockford, Illinois, where United Airlines performs maintenance on its 737s, according to the flight tracking site FlightAware.

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    A mysterious object that cracked a windshield on a United Airlines flight, injuring a pilot and forcing an emergency landing, may have been a weather balloon.

    WindBorne, a California start-up focused on advanced weather forecasting and atmospheric data collection, said in a statement Monday it believes one of its balloons likely hit the plane.

    United Flight 1093, a Boeing 737 traveling from Denver to Los Angeles, landed safely in Utah Thursday with 134 passengers and six crew members onboard, according to the airline.

    Air traffic control audio from LiveATC.net showed the pilots remained calm and declared an emergency as they diverted to land at Salt Lake City.

    The first officer in the cockpit was treated for minor injuries upon the plane’s landing, the Salt Lake City Fire Department said.

    Windborne said it is cooperating with the NTSB and FAA on their investigation.

    “We immediately rolled out changes to minimize time spent between 30,000 and 40,000 feet,” the company said. “These changes are already live with immediate effect. Additionally, we are further accelerating our plans to use live flight data to autonomously avoid planes, even if the planes are at a non-standard altitude. We are also actively working on new hardware designs to further reduce impact force magnitude and concentration.”

    The plane later flew to Rockford, Illinois, where United Airlines performs maintenance on its 737s, according to the flight tracking site FlightAware.

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  • Boeing union workers are voting on another contract offer—a 38% raise—that could end 7-week machinists strike

    Boeing union workers are voting on another contract offer—a 38% raise—that could end 7-week machinists strike

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    Unionized factory workers at Boeing are voting Monday whether to accept a contract offer or to continue their strike, which has lasted more than seven weeks and shut down production of most Boeing passenger planes.

    A vote to ratify the contract would clear the way for the aerospace giant to resume airplane production and bring in much-needed cash. If members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers vote for a third time to reject Boeing’s offer, it would plunge the company into further financial peril and uncertainty.

    In its latest proposed contract, Boeing is offering pay raises of 38% over four years, as well as ratification and productivity bonuses. IAM District 751, which represents Boeing workers in the Pacific Northwest, endorsed the proposal, which is slightly more generous than one the machinists voted down nearly two weeks ago.

    “It is time for our members to lock in these gains and confidently declare victory,” the union district said in scheduling Monday’s vote. “We believe asking members to stay on strike longer wouldn’t be right as we have achieved so much success.”

    Union officials said they think they have gotten all they can though negotiations and a strike, and that if the current proposal is rejected, future offers from Boeing might be worse. They expect to announce the result of the vote Monday night.

    Boeing has adamantly rejected requests to restore traditional pensions that the company froze nearly a decade ago. Pensions were a key issue for workers who voted down previous offers in September and October.

    If machinists ratify the latest offer, they would return to work by Nov. 12, according to the union.

    The strike began Sept. 13 with an overwhelming 94.6% rejection of Boeing’s offer to raise pay by 25% over four years — far less than the union’s original demand for 40% wage increases over three years.

    Machinists voted down another offer — 35% raises over four years, but still no revival of pensions — on Oct. 23, the same day Boeing reported a third-quarter loss of more than $6 billion. However, the offer received 36% support, up from 5% for the mid-September proposal, making Boeing leaders believe they were close to a deal.

    Boeing says average annual pay for machinists is $75,608 and would rise to $119,309 in four years under the current offer.

    In addition to a slightly larger pay increases, the proposed contract includes a $12,000 contract ratification bonus, up from $7,000 in the previous offer, and larger company contributions to employees’ 401(k) retirement accounts.

    Boeing also promises to build its next airline plane in the Seattle area. Union officials fear the company may withdraw the pledge if workers reject the new offer.

    The strike drew the attention of the Biden administration. Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su intervened in the talks several times, including last week.

    The labor standoff — the first strike by Boeing machinists since an eight-week walkout in 2008 — is the latest setback in a volatile year for the company.

    Boeing came under several federal investigations after a door plug blew off a 737 Max plane during an Alaska Airlines flight in January. Federal regulators put limits on Boeing airplane production that they said would last until they felt confident about manufacturing safety at the company.

    The door plug incident renewed concerns about the safety of the 737 Max. Two of the plane’s crashed less than five months apart in 2018 and 2019, killing 346 people. The CEO whose effort to fix the company failed announced in March that he would step down. In July, Boeing agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud for deceiving regulators who approved the 737 Max.

    As the strike dragged on, new CEO Kelly Ortberg announced about 17,000 layoffs and a stock sale to prevent the company’s credit rating from being cut to junk status. S&P and Fitch Ratings said last week that the $24.3 billion in stock and other securities will cover upcoming debt payments and reduce the risk of a credit downgrade.

    The strike has created a cash crunch by depriving Boeing of money it gets when delivering new planes to airlines. The walkout at Seattle-area factories stopped production of the 737 Max, Boeing’s best-selling plane, and the 777 or “triple-seven” jet and the cargo-carrying version of its 767 plane.

    Ortberg has conceded that trust in Boeing has declined, the company has too much debt, and “serious lapses in our performance” have disappointed many airline customers. But, he says, the company’s strengths include a backlog of airplane orders valued at a half-trillion dollars.

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  • US wants Boeing to plead guilty to fraud over fatal crashes, lawyers say

    US wants Boeing to plead guilty to fraud over fatal crashes, lawyers say

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    WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department is pushing Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud in connection with two deadly plane crashes involving its 737 Max jetliners, according to several people who heard federal prosecutors detail a proposed offer Sunday.

    Boeing will have until the end of the coming week to accept or reject the offer, which includes the giant aerospace company agreeing to an independent monitor who would oversee its compliance with anti-fraud laws, they said.

    The case stems from the department’s determination that Boeing violated an agreement that was intended to resolve a 2021 charge of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government. Prosecutors alleged at the time that Boeing misled regulators who approved the 737 Max and set pilot-training requirements to fly the plane. The company blamed two relatively low-level employees for the fraud.

    The Justice Department told relatives of some of the 346 people who died in the 2018 and 2019 crashes about the plea offer during a video meeting. The family members, who want Boeing to face a criminal trial and to pay a $24.8 billion fine, reacted angrily. One said prosecutors were gaslighting the families; another shouted at them for several minutes when given a chance to speak.

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    “We are upset. They should just prosecute,” said Massachusetts resident Nadia Milleron, whose 24-year-old daughter, Samya Stumo, died in the second of two 737 Max crashes. “This is just a reworking of letting Boeing off the hook.”

    Prosecutors told the families that if Boeing rejects the plea offer, the Justice Department would seek a trial in the matter, meeting participants said. Justice Department officials presented the offer to Boeing during a meeting later Sunday, according to a person familiar with the situation.

    Boeing and the Justice Department declined to comment.

    The plea deal would take away the ability of U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor to increase Boeing’s sentence for a conviction, and some of the families plan to ask the Texas judge to reject the deal if Boeing agrees to it.

    “The underlying outrageous piece of this deal is that it doesn’t acknowledge that Boeing’s crime killed 346 people,” said Paul Cassell, one of the lawyers for victims’ families. “Boeing is not going to be held accountable for that, and they are not going to admit that that happened.”

    Sanjiv Singh, a lawyer for 16 families who lost relatives in the October 2018 Lion Air crash off Indonesia, called the plea offer “extremely disappointing.” The terms, he said, “read to me like a sweetheart deal.”

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    Another lawyer representing families who are suing Boeing, Mark Lindquist, said he asked the head of the Justice Department’s fraud section, Glenn Leon, whether the department would add additional charges if Boeing turns down the plea deal. “He wouldn’t commit one way or another,” Lindquist said.

    The meeting with crash victims’ families came weeks after prosecutors told O’Connor that the American aerospace giant breached the January 2021 deal that had protected Boeing from criminal prosecution in connection with the crashes. The second one took place inEthiopia less than five months after the one in Indonesia.

    A conviction could jeopardize Boeing’s status as a federal contractor, according to some legal experts. The company has large contracts with the Pentagon and NASA.

    However, federal agencies can give waivers to companies that are convicted of felonies to keep them eligible for government contracts. Lawyers for the crash victims’ families expect that would be done for Boeing.

    Boeing paid a $244 million fine as part of the 2021 settlement of the original fraud charge. The Justice Department is likely to seek another, similar penalty as part of the new plea offer, said a person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing to discuss an ongoing case.

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    The deal would include a monitor to oversee Boeing – but the company would put forward three nominees and have the Justice Department pick one, or ask Boeing for additional names. That provision was particularly hated by the family members on the call, participants said.

    The Justice Department also gave no indication of moving to prosecute any current or former Boeing executives, another long-sought demand of the families.

    Lindquist, a former prosecutor, said officials made clear during an earlier meeting that individuals – even CEOs – can be more sympathetic defendants than corporations. The officials pointed to the 2022 acquittal on fraud charges of Boeing’s chief technical pilot for the Max as an example.

    It is unclear what impact a plea deal might have on other investigations into Boeing, including those following the blowout of a panel called a door plug from the side of a Boeing Max 9 during an Alaska Airlines flight in January.

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  • New Boeing whistleblower alleges faulty airplane parts may have been used on jets

    New Boeing whistleblower alleges faulty airplane parts may have been used on jets

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    A new whistleblower report alleges some faulty airplane parts may have been used on Boeing jets. It comes as the company has faced a series of safety and quality concerns, including a door panel that blew off an Alaska Airlines plane mid-flight in January.

    The new complaint is from Boeing employee Sam Mohawk, who claims that when Boeing restarted production of the 737 Max after two deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019, there was “a 300% increase” in reports about parts that did not meet manufacturer standards.

    While those parts were supposed to be removed from production and closely tracked, the report alleges “the 737 program was losing hundreds of non-conforming parts.”

    “Mohawk feared that non-conforming parts were being installed on the 737s and that could lead to a catastrophic event,” according to the report.

    Boeing’s outgoing CEO Dave Calhoun is set to testify Tuesday before the Senate on Capitol Hill. 

    The document also claims that when Boeing learned of a pending FAA inspection last June, many parts were moved to another location to “intentionally hide improperly stored parts from the FAA.”

    “We received this document late Monday evening and are reviewing the claims,” Boeing said in a statement. “We continuously encourage employees to report all concerns as our priority is to ensure the safety of our airplanes and the flying public.”

    In April, Boeing whistleblowers, including Sam Salehpour, a quality engineer at the company, testified to lawmakers over safety concerns.

    “Despite what Boeing officials state publicly, there is no safety culture at Boeing, and employees like me who speak up about defects with its production activities and lack of quality control are ignored, marginalized, threatened, sidelined and worse,” he told members of an investigative panel of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

    Boeing denied Salehpour’s allegations, and said in a statement, “A 787 can safely operate for at least 30 years before needing expanded airframe maintenance routines. Extensive and rigorous testing of the fuselage and heavy maintenance checks of nearly 700 in-service airplanes to date have found zero evidence of airframe fatigue.”

    Calhoun is also expected during his testimony to outline steps Boeing is taking to make improvements, including its safety and quality action plan recently submitted to the FAA, and tell senators Boeing’s culture is “far from perfect, but we are taking action and making progress.”

    “Boeing has adopted a broken safety culture of shut up, not speak up when it comes to its workers reporting problems and that kind of retaliation is a recipe for disaster,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, said.

    Boeing company leaders met with federal regulators in May to discuss safety and quality concerns.

    “We reviewed Boeing’s roadmap to set a new standard of safety and underscored that they must follow through on corrective actions and effectively transform their safety culture,” FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker said. “On the FAA’s part, we will make sure they do and that their fixes are effective. This does not mark the end of our increased oversight of Boeing and its suppliers, but it sets a new standard of how Boeing does business.”

    Calhoun will leave his position by the end of this year, a new CEO has not been named.

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    Emmy Award-winning journalist Kris Van Cleave is the senior transportation correspondent for CBS News based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also serves as a national correspondent reporting for all CBS News broadcasts and platforms.

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  • Boeing taps internal executive with three decades’ experience for top job, but it might not be a ‘slam dunk,’ CEO succession expert says

    Boeing taps internal executive with three decades’ experience for top job, but it might not be a ‘slam dunk,’ CEO succession expert says

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    Boeing announced this morning that CEO Dave Calhoun would depart the company and that an executive with three decades of tenure at the $117 billion manufacturing company, Stephanie Pope, would take the lead of the commercial airlines division. As Pope takes charge of a business in crisis, investors are waiting in the wings to see what Pope’s plan is for the next 12 months—and how Boeing will hold her accountable. 

    Pope has a murky road ahead with regulators, investors and customers in reshaping the company’s culture and then proving to the world that people can trust it. Boeing has been beset by problems since before Calhoun even stepped into the CEO role to replace Dennis Muilenburg in 2019 after 346 people died while flying in Boeing-manufactured planes. The U.S. Department of Justice later fined Boeing $2.5 billion to resolve criminal charges of conspiracy to defraud the Federal Aviation Association’s aircraft evaluation group in January 2021. Three years on, Calhoun is leaving amid a strong lack of confidence among customers and the public after parts of Boeing-manufactured planes began blowing off midflight; last week members of the Boeing board, including Kellner, began holding meetings with major customers without Calhoun present.   

    “They’ve had a couple of years to figure out what’s going on with the engineering-assembly process and they haven’t diagnosed the situation yet,” said Jason Schloetzer, an associate professor at Georgetown University who has studied CEO succession and effectiveness. “They’re looking to clean house to a certain extent and get a new team in there with a fresh pair of eyes and new incentives to get this resolved—because you can’t affect change if you can’t even assess what the situation is and figure out what needs to be fixed, let alone put together a plan to fix it.”  

    Boeing insider likely less costly than looking outside 

    Going with Pope as an internal CEO pick for the airlines division is likely far less expensive than hiring someone from outside Boeing, said Maria Vu, senior director of North American compensation research at proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis. An executive from outside the company would have required Boeing to offer the exec “make-whole” payments, to compensate for equity they would leave behind with a prior employer. Plus, companies in distress often have to provide a lot of incentives to lure executives from other companies to take over a business in crisis. It’s unclear at this point if Boeing will offer Pope more than the compensation she received as chief operating officer, which was $1.2 million in salary plus an annual cash bonus of $2 million and a long-term incentive of $10 million. Once Boeing discloses Pope’s goals, investors are likely to scrutinize them for signs of how the board intends to hold Pope accountable for turning around Boeing’s culture, she said.

    “There seems to be a significant risk to the business if the company’s culture is not meaningfully addressed,” said Vu. “It will be indicative of how serious the board is about changing the culture if you look at the sorts of things they’re incentivizing Ms. Pope for in her incentive programs.”

    With Pope, the company is turning to a seasoned executive to turn the company around and on the one hand, “that’s great,” said Schloetzer. She is “somebody who knows the business really well and been there for a long time and is well-versed in what’s going on,” he said. On the other hand, Pope is also “a person who has been there while these issues have been playing out.”

    “It’s not easy to find somebody who can come in and think through an organization like Boeing, so it also makes sense to have an internal person, but it’s not a slam dunk,” said Schloetzer. According to Schloetzer, there may also be recruiting below the C-suite and NEO level to bring in fresh perspectives to Boeing. 

    The management bloodletting at the top includes Stan Deal, president and CEO of Boeing’s commercial airlines division who Pope is replacing, and board chair Larry Kellner, who stepped into the role in 2019 when Calhoun crossed over from being a board member to CEO. The company has also seen outflows from other executive roles in the past few years, including Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing’s defense, space and security unit, and senior vice president and treasurer David Dohnalek. The Boeing board elected Steve Mollenkopf to replace Kellner. 

    In January, Boeing announced that Calhoun had tapped Admiral Kirkland Donald as a special advisor to investigate Boeing’s quality management system for commercial plans. Kirkland, who is chairman of the board at $11.5 billion military shipbuilding company Huntington Ingalls, was to give Calhoun and Boeing’s aerospace safety committee a report and recommendations. His review remains ongoing, said a Boeing spokesperson in a statement to Fortune.

    For Calhoun, the bulk of his more than $20 million in pay was supposed to come from his long-term incentive pay award, which had a target of $17 million. By the end of 2023, he was to have seen the 737 MAX safely return to service; realignment of engineering function; 777X twin-engine jet entry into service and delivery and production ramp-up. The award did not vest, according to the company’s disclosures. 

    “Generally, to incentivize an executive to be serious about something and to make material changes, especially if it’s a material risk to the business, we would expect to see some revisions to incentive programs to help address that,” said Vu.

    As for Calhoun, he has at least $20 million coming his way and potentially another $45.5 million, depending on how the next CEO fares in the role. However, the Boeing board could provide him additional compensation as part of his departure or the board might decline to do so in order to avoid the additional scrutiny. 

    “How they classify his departure is a conversation they are likely having with him in terms of negotiation,” Vu said.

    Editor’s Note: This story has been clarified to state that Stephanie Pope is the new president and CEO of Boeing commercial airplanes.

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  • United flight rolls off runway and onto grass at Houston airport

    United flight rolls off runway and onto grass at Houston airport

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    Nearly 170 people on board a United Airlines flight were forced to evacuate when their plane veered off the runway after landing at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston and got stuck in grass while heading to the gate. Roxana Saberi reports.

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  • Travel expert on a close call at JFK airport and challenges facing the FAA

    Travel expert on a close call at JFK airport and challenges facing the FAA

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    The FAA and NTSB are investigating a near collision between two passenger planes at New York’s JFK airport. And the FAA is facing criticism after a computer outage last week caused massive delays. CBS News travel editor Peter Greenberg joins Lana Zak to discuss.

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