the black streak continues for Boeing

It seems as though fate is besetting the American industrialist. This time it’s not about missing bolts blowing off a door on takeoff. On Wednesday May 8, an Air France-KLM Boeing 787-900 had to make an emergency landing at a Canadian airport following a burning smell detected on board. But the most spectacular images come from Istanbul, Turkey, where a cargo plane chartered by Fedex courier was forced to land without a nose wheel, the landing gear was not extended and the plane ended its race on the nose in impressive showers of sparks. No injuries were reported.

Problems on the Starliner capsule too

Monday evening, it was Starliner which did not want to take off from the Cape Canaveral space center. Starliner is the capsule designed by Boeing which will transport astronauts to the international space station (ISS). A project on which the American group is counting heavily to try to compete with Elon Musk’s company SpaceX, to obtain a greater share of the lucrative space flight market. Anomaly identified on a valve of the Atlas V rocket which is to propel Starliner. After the failure of Monday’s launch, a new firing window is scheduled for May 17.

More than Boeing’s management, it is the group’s shareholders who are losing patience, particularly in the face of new investigations opened by the American aviation safety authority. The debate even comes to the boss’s remuneration. An influential consultancy agency popular in the United States is advocating that Boeing shareholders reverse the pay increase planned for CEO David Calhoun. For the 2023 financial year, it is expected that the boss will receive remuneration of 33 million dollars (nearly 31 million euros), an increase of 45% over one year, according to the Financial Times. Boeing’s General Meeting of Shareholders is scheduled for May 17, the day of the new Starliner launch attempt. The boss’s increase could also remain on the tarmac.