Timeline: The woes of aviation giant Boeing

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00:00 The aviation giant Boeing has been under intense scrutiny this year following the Alaska Airlines

00:05 incident in January.

00:07 On the 5th January a door of a Boeing 737 Max 9 plane blew out shortly after takeoff.

00:14 The Federal Aviation Administration quickly ordered the grounding of this fleet of aircraft

00:18 and it prompted a safety crackdown.

00:21 The incident in January was not the first of its kind associated with Boeing aircraft.

00:26 A Boeing Max 8 jet operated by Lion Air crashed in Indonesia in 2018 and an Ethiopian Airlines

00:33 Max 8 crashed in 2019.

00:35 At the end of January a nose wheel fell off a Boeing 757 Delta Airlines flight and a United

00:42 Airlines Boeing 737 flight was forced to divert due to a cracked windshield.

00:47 In February both Alaska Airlines and United Airlines announced that their Boeing 737 Max

00:52 9 aircraft will now return to service, despite a former quality manager at Boeing warning

00:59 that the planes are back up in the air too soon.

01:02 John Barnett said he is concerned as jobs are not being completed properly.

01:07 Boeing has also been accused of being happy to rely on cheap materials from its subcontractor

01:12 Spirit Aerosystems.

01:13 Lion Air currently operates Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft and in May last year it announced

01:19 it had ordered 300 new Boeing 737 Max 10 aircraft for delivery between 2027 to 2033.

01:27 However, Lion Air is now facing delays to the delivery of Boeing aircraft and has warned

01:33 holidaymakers that they could face up to 10% more expensive flight tickets this summer

01:39 due to the delay.

01:40 It will also affect flights this summer.

01:43 Lion Air has said it has already implemented scheduled cuts at Dublin, Milan, Marpenza,

01:48 Walsall, Modern and four Portuguese airports.

01:52 In March, three Alaska Airlines passengers who survived the mid-air blowout announced

01:56 they are suing Boeing for $1 billion.

02:00 The lawsuit claims that they suffered severe mental, emotional and psychological injuries,

02:05 including post-traumatic stress and physical injuries.

02:09 The law firm wrote that the case seeks to hold Boeing accountable for its negligence,

02:13 which had caused extreme panic, fear and post-traumatic stress.

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