Each year to benefit charity, Warren Buffett famously auctions off the privilege of joining him for lunch for millions of dollars. The meal has traditionally been held at the famed New York steakhouse Smith & Wollensky. There the “Oracle of Omaha” apparently usually orders a medium-rare steak, hash browns and a Cherry Coke.
One of the first drawings that Chinese political cartoonist Badiucao ever shared on Chinese social media platform Weibo was of a deadly bullet train accident in southern China in 2011. It drew little notice.
Most people have absolutely no idea what it takes to build a safe airplane—and they’ll never need to. For them, it might be easy to look at the crisis that Boeing has weathered in the wake of two 737 Max crashes and assume the lessons to be learned are strictly about software, or aerodynamics, or engineering. In other words: not their problem.
Less than 24 hours after a second Boeing 737 Max crashed out of the sky in March, China made a sudden move.
China’s social media app WeChat is in the spotlight ahead of Australia’s national election for allegedly spreading misleading information about candidates.
Some months after Boeing delivered its first 737 Max planes to a carrier in Indonesia, engineers at the company realized that a cockpit alert wasn’t actually activated on most of the jets. After an internal review, people at Boeing decided airlines—and even the company’s top management—didn’t need to know that.
King Maha Vajiralongkorn has been officially crowned as Thailand’s monarch amid Buddhist and Hindu prayers and pageantry costing over $30 million.
It’s been six months since a Lion Air flight on a Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed in Indonesia and killed 189 people, and revelations about the aircraft’s design and induction are still springing alarming surprises.
Indonesian president Joko Widodo’s Twitter account has been interspersing tweets that show him in Saudi Arabia meeting with royals and conducting a minor pilgrimage with his wife in Mecca with videos that show off new roads in remote areas and subway trains.
While in sheer numbers of voters the Indonesian election is no match for India’s ongoing polls, there are still plenty of reasons to consider it one of the world’s most impressive feats of electoral logistics.
The busiest day of the year for China’s censors is fast approaching, as the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown of June 4, 1989 rolls around again.
It was Boeing’s fastest-selling plane ever. But after two deadly crashes, and the grounding of its 737 Max plane worldwide, Boeing announced on Friday (April 5) it will cut production of the model from 52 to 42 jets per month from the middle of April.
A pilot for a US airline told managers months before October’s Lion Air crash in Indonesia that he was uncomfortable with the level of training he had received before he was scheduled to fly the Boeing 737 Max for the first time. But when he asked for more training, he faced difficulties in getting it—and even a form of reprimand.
Black box data from the Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed March 10 show the pilots began carrying out the proper steps to override a flight system implicated in an earlier crash of the aircraft, according to the Wall Street Journal (paywall).
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said yesterday (April 1) that more time was needed for a software enhancement to the 737 Max aircraft that Boeing had expected to roll out to airlines no later than this month.
The recent mass shooting at two mosques in New Zealand, a gruesome hate crime designed for maximum social media exposure, has created a number of ethical conundrums for news producers and consumers around the world. And now it’s creating free-speech concerns.
Again and again, in discussions of what has gone wrong with Boeing’s 737 Max plane in two deadly crashes within five months, an unusual word keeps coming up: kludge.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) hasn’t had a proper top official since its last chief departed 14 months ago. That could soon change, with the White House saying yesterday that president Donald Trump will nominate former Delta Airlines executive Steve Dickson to lead the agency.
When a Lion Air flight crashed in Indonesia on Oct. 29 killing 189 people, it was the first accident for Boeing’s new 737 Max jet, and it drew investigator attention to a little-known new flight-control function.
A little over a week after the deadly crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max jet, the aircraft maker’s CEO Dennis Muilenburg put out a personal statement to passengers, airlines, and the aviation community yesterday (March 18) expressing sorrow over the second crash using this particular aircraft, and pledging the company’s commitment to safety.
US pilots got an extra hour or two of training to prepare to use Boeing’s new 737 Max 8 aircraft, which has been involved in two deadly crashes in less than six months.
Once the black boxes from Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 were recovered, Ethiopia’s air accident investigators had a dilemma. Which country should they go to?
The US Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday (March 11) the Boeing 737 Max aircraft, involved in two fatal crashes in less than six months, is safe to fly.
Today, China, Ethiopian Airlines, and Cayman Airways announced they were grounding their Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft after the second deadly crash involving the updated 737 single-aisle model in just over four months. All 157 people on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi were killed yesterday in a crash.
