The firm had to ground its Boeing 737 MAX 9 fleet after a mid-air blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight.

United Airlines has blamed Boeing for a $200m (£161m) hit to its earnings in the first three months of this year.

The carrier was forced to ground its Boeing 737 MAX 9 fleet for three weeks after a mid-air cabin blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight in January.

United said that pushed it to a pre-tax loss of $164m for the first quarter.

  • Hildegarde
    22•7 months ago

    Boeing wrote the service manuals and maintainance schedule. If the airline was supposed to do a test to catch the mistake but didn’t, boeing would mention it.

    A door plug is part of the fuselage, and it is hidden behind wall panels. An airline isn’t expected to disassemble the entire interior to check the structure upon taking delivery of the plane.

    The pressure fault the plane had before the blowout wouldn’t have lead to a check of the door plug even if it had gotten the service before the blowout.