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...The 16 per cent collapse in Alaska’s share price on Monday suggests the market thinks this deal will stay grounded. Spirit’s share price offers little comfort....
...The European group had been discussing the future of the operations after the Alaska Airlines incident, according to two people familiar with the situation. Airbus declined to comment on Friday....
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...Shares in Boeing and supplier Spirit AeroSystems both tumbled on Monday as investors weighed up the financial fallout from last week’s mid-flight accident on an Alaska Airlines aircraft....
...Its stock closed down 8 per cent on Monday at $229 while shares in Spirit AeroSystems, its biggest supplier, lost 11 per cent to close at $28.20....
...Shares in Spirit AeroSystems were down 16 per cent in US pre-market trading. The company, a key Boeing supplier, installs the plugged door as part of the construction of the 737 Max fuselage....
...Spirit AeroSystems, a key Boeing supplier, installs the plugged door as part of its construction of the 737 Max fuselage, a company spokesman confirmed. The spokesman declined to comment further....
...The Alaska Airlines blowout happened two days before the three-year probationary period expired....
...Leading operators include United Airlines, Alaska Airlines and Delta Air Lines....
...Spirit AeroSystems, which supplies the fuselage for Boeing’s 737 Max, said it is assisting federal investigators to discover the cause of the accident on Alaska Airlines flight 1282....
...Shares of Boeing and Spirit closed with declines of 8 per cent and 11 per cent, respectively. But it may not be as easy to blame Spirit as Boeing bulls would hope....
...The door panel that blew out during the Alaska Airlines flight was later found in the garden of an Oregon physics teacher....
...Pat Shanahan, interim chief executive, said Spirit was taking a “hard look” at its processes following the Alaska incident....
...The regulator launched an investigation of Boeing and Spirit following the mid-air blowout of a door panel on an Alaska Airlines flight in January....
...It has also been in talks to acquire Spirit AeroSystems, the troubled fuselage supplier it spun off nearly 20 years ago....
...The two cases last year and the Alaska incident all have Spirit in common — the Wichita, Kansas-based company builds the Max fuselages, including the door plug that fell off the plane....
...For Spirit, it would spell the end of a strange, two-decade journey. Spirit depends on Boeing. Boeing also depends on Spirit. Integration between the two is understandably tight....
...A Boeing team is also inspecting Spirit’s installation of mid-exit door plugs. Spirit built the door plug that blew out on the Alaska aircraft in mid-air....
...Deliveries of its backbone 737 jet have slowed, after a door blowout on an Alaska Airlines trip mid-flight in January forced Boeing to confront its manufacturing problems....
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...Boeing is replacing the executive in charge of manufacturing its 737 Max aircraft, weeks after a door panel blew out of one of the planes on an Alaska Airlines flight....
...The two companies have been at the centre of federal investigations probing last month’s mid-flight blowout of a section of the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines aircraft....
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