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Telegraph
08-07-2025
- Telegraph
Train strike over ‘sleeping driver' to continue beyond Christmas
Train drivers who have been striking in support of a sacked colleague who fell asleep at the controls may continue until next year. Strikers at Hull Trains have been walking out for the past six months to demand the reinstatement of a colleague who nodded off while at the controls of a 125mph service. Union representatives have since claimed there is 'no evidence' of this happening, although a letter sent to Hull Trains staff by its bosses said the driver had experienced 'fatigue matters' more than once. Unions involved in long-running disputes must by law reballot their members every six months to see if they want to continue walking out. 'This is a moral issue' Mick Whelan, the general secretary of Aslef, said the union would 'keep going' until the driver was reinstated. Mr Whelan said that Hull Trains had 'behaved deplorably', adding: 'The company's failure to act responsibly has enormous implications not just for rail workers and passengers at Hull Trains but for staff and passengers right across the wider rail network. 'This is a moral issue because we have a culture on the railway designed to keep everyone safe. 'Anyone who works on the railway should be able to report a safety concern without fearing they will be penalised, punished or lose their livelihood.'
Zawya
24-06-2025
- Business
- Zawya
US safety board to scrutinize Boeing role in 737 MAX 9 mid-air emergency
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board will hold a hearing on Tuesday to determine the probable cause of a mid-air cabin panel blowout of a new Boeing 737 MAX 9 flight in January 2024 that spun the planemaker into a major crisis. The board is expected to harshly criticize Boeing's safety culture and its failure to install four key bolts in a new Alaska Airlines MAX 9, officials told Reuters. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy has said the incident was entirely avoidable because the planemaker should have addressed unauthorized production work long ago. "This accident should have never happened. This should have been caught years before," Homendy said last August during a two-day investigative hearing. "The safety culture needs a lot of work." The accident prompted the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation and declare that Boeing was not in compliance with a 2021 deferred prosecution agreement and CEO Dave Calhoun announced he would step down within a few months of the mid-air panel blowout. The incident badly damaged Boeing's reputation and led to a grounding of the MAX 9 for two weeks and a 38 planes per month cap by the Federal Aviation Administration on MAX production that still remains in place. Boeing created no paperwork for the removal of the 737 MAX 9 door plug - a piece of metal shaped like a door covering an unused emergency exit - or its re-installation during production, and did not know which employees were involved, the NTSB said last year. Boeing did not respond to a request for comment ahead of the meeting. Then-FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker said in June 2024 the agency was "too hands off" in Boeing oversight and it has boosted the number of inspectors at Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems factories. Boeing had agreed last July to plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge after two fatal 737 MAX crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. But it last month struck a deal with the Justice Department to avoid a guilty plea. The Justice Department has asked a judge to approve the deal, which will allow Boeing to avoid pleading guilty or facing oversight by an outside monitor but will require it to pay an additional $444.5 million into a crash victims fund to be divided equally per crash victim. (Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Jamie Freed)
Reuters
24-06-2025
- Business
- Reuters
US safety board to scrutinize Boeing role in 737 MAX 9 mid-air emergency
WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board will hold a hearing on Tuesday to determine the probable cause of a mid-air cabin panel blowout of a new Boeing (BA.N), opens new tab 737 MAX 9 flight in January 2024 that spun the planemaker into a major crisis. The board is expected to harshly criticize Boeing's safety culture and its failure to install four key bolts in a new Alaska Airlines (ALK.N), opens new tab MAX 9, officials told Reuters. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy has said the incident was entirely avoidable because the planemaker should have addressed unauthorized production work long ago. "This accident should have never happened. This should have been caught years before," Homendy said last August during a two-day investigative hearing. "The safety culture needs a lot of work." The accident prompted the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation and declare that Boeing was not in compliance with a 2021 deferred prosecution agreement and CEO Dave Calhoun announced he would step down within a few months of the mid-air panel blowout. The incident badly damaged Boeing's reputation and led to a grounding of the MAX 9 for two weeks and a 38 planes per month cap by the Federal Aviation Administration on MAX production that still remains in place. Boeing created no paperwork for the removal of the 737 MAX 9 door plug - a piece of metal shaped like a door covering an unused emergency exit - or its re-installation during production, and did not know which employees were involved, the NTSB said last year. Boeing did not respond to a request for comment ahead of the meeting. Then-FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker said in June 2024 the agency was "too hands off" in Boeing oversight and it has boosted the number of inspectors at Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems (SPR.N), opens new tab factories. Boeing had agreed last July to plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge after two fatal 737 MAX crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. But it last month struck a deal with the Justice Department to avoid a guilty plea. The Justice Department has asked a judge to approve the deal, which will allow Boeing to avoid pleading guilty or facing oversight by an outside monitor but will require it to pay an additional $444.5 million into a crash victims fund to be divided equally per crash victim.
Yahoo
24-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
US safety board to scrutinize Boeing role in 737 MAX 9 mid-air emergency
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board will hold a hearing on Tuesday to determine the probable cause of a mid-air cabin panel blowout of a new Boeing 737 MAX 9 flight in January 2024 that spun the planemaker into a major crisis. The board is expected to harshly criticize Boeing's safety culture and its failure to install four key bolts in a new Alaska Airlines MAX 9, officials told Reuters. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy has said the incident was entirely avoidable because the planemaker should have addressed unauthorized production work long ago. "This accident should have never happened. This should have been caught years before," Homendy said last August during a two-day investigative hearing. "The safety culture needs a lot of work." The accident prompted the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation and declare that Boeing was not in compliance with a 2021 deferred prosecution agreement and CEO Dave Calhoun announced he would step down within a few months of the mid-air panel blowout. The incident badly damaged Boeing's reputation and led to a grounding of the MAX 9 for two weeks and a 38 planes per month cap by the Federal Aviation Administration on MAX production that still remains in place. Boeing created no paperwork for the removal of the 737 MAX 9 door plug - a piece of metal shaped like a door covering an unused emergency exit - or its re-installation during production, and did not know which employees were involved, the NTSB said last year. Boeing did not respond to a request for comment ahead of the meeting. Then-FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker said in June 2024 the agency was "too hands off" in Boeing oversight and it has boosted the number of inspectors at Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems factories. Boeing had agreed last July to plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge after two fatal 737 MAX crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. But it last month struck a deal with the Justice Department to avoid a guilty plea. The Justice Department has asked a judge to approve the deal, which will allow Boeing to avoid pleading guilty or facing oversight by an outside monitor but will require it to pay an additional $444.5 million into a crash victims fund to be divided equally per crash victim.
South China Morning Post
16-05-2025
- General
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong's Cathay vows to instil safety and reporting culture in cadet training
Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways has vowed to instil a great sense of safety and culture of reporting in its cadet pilot training, saying these areas formed an integral part of daily operations. The airline made the pledge on Friday as the first batch of 34 cadet pilots graduated from its training programme held partly in Hong Kong, including the inaugural in-house theoretical course by the Cathay Academy Flying Centre of Excellence. The 30 men and four women completed the programme after about 80 weeks of training split between Cathay City's simulators, ground theory training and flight practice in the United States and Australia. The quality of Cathay's cadet pilots came into in the spotlight last year after the company removed three cadet pilots from its training programme following three serious blunders at the US-based training centre AeroGuard – a wingtip collision with a fixed object, a bounced landing which caused a substantial impact to the aircraft's propeller and a plane that ran off a runway. The trainees reportedly elected to continue with their missions, but they were expected to have consulted their duty flight instructor before proceeding. During the graduation ceremony on Friday, Captain Chris Kempis, Cathay director of flight operations, said maintaining safety was an essential part of a pilot's job.
