A window blew out of a plane mid-flight. It’s not Boeing’s first 737 problem

A window blew out of a plane mid-flight. It’s not Boeing’s first 737 problem

The episode has raised troubling new questions about the safety of a workhorse aircraft design dogged by years of problems and multiple deadly crashes.

  • byChristopher F. Schuetze andKeith Bradsher

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US officials order grounding of Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners after a plane suffers a blowout
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US officials order grounding of Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners after a plane suffers a blowout

An Alaska Airlines plane suffered a blowout that left a gaping hole in the side of the fuselage. The required inspections will affect about 171 planes worldwide.

‘Waiting for it to blow up’:Australian family reveals Japan plane crash terror

‘Waiting for it to blow up’:Australian family reveals Japan plane crash terror

An Australian teenager has described how her family managed to escape from the second last row of a Japan Airlines plane,after it burst into flames on the runway.

  • byJessica McSweeney
Japan Coast Guard plane didn’t have OK to be on runway:transcript

Japan Coast Guard plane didn’t have OK to be on runway:transcript

Air traffic control transcripts suggest the smaller of the two aircraft was asked to hold short of the runway before it collided with the larger JAL passenger jet.

  • byNicholas Takahashi,Danny Lee andSiddharth Philip
How did so many survive the Japanese plane crash? It was no miracle

How did so many survive the Japanese plane crash? It was no miracle

To call the swift evacuation of this burning plane miraculous diminishes the significance of a very human achievement.

  • byMilad Haghani andRico Merkert
Fisherman’s ‘plausible’ wing find triggers new push to solve MH370 mystery

Fisherman’s ‘plausible’ wing find triggers new push to solve MH370 mystery

A former naval officer involved in the initial hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight has called for an investigation into an Australian man’s claims he pulled up a large piece of a commercial plane at sea.

  • byMelissa Cunningham
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Police probe possible negligence in Tokyo air crash
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Police probe possible negligence in Tokyo air crash

“There’s a strong possibility there was a human error,” Hiroyuki Kobayashi,a former pilot and aviation analyst,said of the fiery collision between a Japan Airlines airliner and a coast guard plane.

  • byKaori Kaneko
‘It was a miracle’:Twelve Australians among fireball flight survivors

‘It was a miracle’:Twelve Australians among fireball flight survivors

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed a dozen Australians were among 379 passengers and crew who survived the fiery crash landing at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport.

  • bySarah McPhee
Wreckage of crashed jet pulled from Port Phillip Bay

Wreckage of crashed jet pulled from Port Phillip Bay

Police hope video cameras filming inside the ex-military plane when it crashed will help piece together the moments before the mid-air collision that killed two people.

  • byLachlan Abbott andAlex Crowe
Remains of pilot and passenger found in Mount Martha plane crash search
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Remains of pilot and passenger found in Mount Martha plane crash search

Pilot Stephen Gale and cameraman James Rose went missing when the plane they were flying in crashed into Port Phillip Bay near Mount Martha on Sunday.

  • byLachlan Abbott
Wreckage found in Mount Martha plane crash search
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Wreckage found in Mount Martha plane crash search

Police are working to remove a large part of the former military jet from the water in Mornington after the plane carrying a pilot and cameraman filming a documentary about flying crashed on Sunday.

  • byLachlan Abbott andMadeleine Heffernan