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Carla St. Louis

Boeing's Year of Crises in Review: Crashes, Whistleblowers and a Major Loss to SpaceX

Over the last year, the FAA says it received more than 200 reports from whistleblowers. (Credit: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

2024 has proven to be a wretched year for Boeing. It lost millions of dollars in its contract with NASA to SpaceX, more than 200 whistleblowers reported it to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and two Boeing 737-800s crashed within a day of each other in Norway and South Korea. Now, experts are scrutinizing the American company's fall from grace.

Boeing's year started with a series of publicized incidents such as a quality control flaw that led the panel of a 737-9 Max to detach during an Alaska Airlines flight.

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