Boeing battered as incidents pile up

Boeing, still moving to repair its image aft nan doorway flew disconnected 1 of its 737 Max 7 mid-flight successful January, has been deed pinch a caller activity of bad property successful caller days owed to a bid of incidents that person kept nan airplane shaper successful nan headlines.

First, connected Monday, nan institution was backmost successful nan world news aft a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner took a "nose dive" during a LATAM Airlines formation to New Zealand, leaving 50 group injured and sparking investigations from authorities astir what caused nan accelerated driblet successful altitude.

The aforesaid day, a United Airlines Boeing 777-300 plane was forced to move astir midflight after suffering what nan hose says was a "maintenance issue" pursuing takeoff from Sydney.

Also connected Monday, news collapsed that a whistleblower who raised doubts astir Boeing's accumulation standards was found dead complete nan weekend.

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Authorities successful South Carolina said John Barnett, who was a value power technologist astatine Boeing for decades, died from what appeared to beryllium a self-inflicted gunshot coiled connected Saturday. Days earlier he died, Barnett was cross-examined by Boeing's lawyers and his ain attorneys successful a suit against nan company.

Barnett's attorneys are calling for a afloat investigation into his decease and opportunity nan suit could proceed contempt his death.

Boeing's location office is connected April 29, 2020, successful Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Multiple Boeing customers reported their ain troubles owed to nan manufacturers' woes this week, too.

Southwest Airlines said Tuesday it is cutting capacity and pausing hiring successful 2024 owed to Boeing's "continued challenges." 

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Then United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby revealed nan bearer had told Boeing to extremity making nan hundreds of 737 Max 10s it ordered and to alternatively build Max 9s, fixed it is "impossible to say" erstwhile nan Max 10s mightiness beryllium certified by nan Federal Aviation Administration.

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Last week, a United Airlines Boeing 777-200 mislaid a instrumentality while taking disconnected from San Francisco connected a formation to Japan and had to onshore successful Los Angeles.

FOX Business' Chris Pandolfo and Greg Norman contributed to this report.