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Boeing CEO and Execs Disembark From the Company Amid Safety Crisis
Dave Calhoun, the CEO of Boeing, announced plans to step down at the end of 2024 on Monday morning. Larger issues with the company’s 737 Max planes were spotlighted this year after the door on an Alaska Airlines flight came loose mid-air. “As you all know, the Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 accident was a watershed…
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10 Reasons People Are Now Scared to Fly on Boeing Planes
The world got an uncomfortable reminder about the need to scrutinize air travel last January when a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines flight 16,000 feet over Portland, OR. The culprit was a Boeing 737, and in the days that followed, it was soon clear that catastrophic failure wasn’t a freak accident but the…
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Elon Musk Claims Tesla Employee’s Fatal Crash Had Nothing to Do With Full-Self-Driving
Elon Musk is taking issue with a report from the Washington Post published Tuesday detailing what the newspaper described as potentially the first death from Tesla’s Full-Self-Driving feature in 2022. Musk claims the autonomous driving feature was never even downloaded, though the billionaire CEO didn’t provide evidence to back up his claim. “He was not…
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Dramatic Iceland Eruption Photos Show Lava Spreading Across Pristine Snow
Southwestern Iceland has been a world transformed over the last few months, as initial tremors gave way to a full-throated volcanic eruption. The fishing village of Grindavík was evacuated in November, along with popular tourist destinations like the country’s Blue Lagoon, as residents held their breath for a potential eruption. And lo, a little later…