An unpainted Boeing 737 Max 8 is parked at Renton Municipal Airport adjacent to Boeing's factory in Renton, Wash. on January 25, 2024. Boeing is still reeling from the fallout of an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 which lost a part of its fuselage in mid-flight earlier in the month. Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft is seen at Portland International Airport on January 9, 2024 in Oregon. The plane made an emergency landing following a midair fuselage blowout on Jan. 5. None of the 171 passengers and six crew members was seriously injured. Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images hide caption
Alaska Airlines N704AL, a Boeing 737 Max 9, which made an emergency landing at Portland International Airport on January 5 is parked at a maintenance hanger in Portland, Ore. on January 23, 2024. One of two door plugs on the emergency exit door blew out shortly after the plane took off from Portland. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A United Airlines Boeing 737-900ER arrives at Los Angeles International Airport in 2019. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
This image taken from video provided by Melanie Adaros shows what she said were sparks shooting from a cargo plane before it made an emergency landing at Miami International Airport on Thursday. Melanie Adaros via AP hide caption
Then-President Barack Obama walks down the stairs of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner at the company's production facility in Everett, Wash., in 2012. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded 171 of the 737 Max 9 planes in the United States, as it conducts an audit of the Boeing's production line. FAA officials have said the regulator is considering adding an independent third-party inspector to oversee Boeing inspections and quality. NTSB via AP hide caption
The door plug area of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft, seen with the paneling removed, awaits inspection Wednesday at the airline's facilities at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Wash. Lindsey Wasson/AP hide caption
A plastic sheet covers part of the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 at Portland International Airport on Jan. 8. NTSB investigators are trying to learn why the aircraft suffered a midair fuselage blowout last Friday. Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images hide caption
Alaska Airlines N704AL, a 737 Max 9 which made an emergency landing at Portland International Airport after a part of the fuselage broke off mid-flight on Friday, is parked at a maintenance hanger in Portland, Ore., Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. Craig Mitchelldyer/AP hide caption
This photo released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows a gaping hole where the paneled-over door had been at the fuselage plug area of an Alaska Airlines flight in Portland, Ore. A panel used to plug an area reserved for an exit door on the Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner blew out Jan. 5, forcing the plane to return to Portland International Airport. National Transportation Safety Board via AP hide caption
The first Alaska Airlines passenger flight on a Boeing 737-9 Max airplane takes off on a flight to San Diego from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle on March 1, 2021. Ted S. Warren/AP hide caption
In this handout photo provided by NASA, an Atlas V rocket with Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft launches from Cape Canaveral, Fla. on on May 19, 2022. This was the Starliner's second uncrewed flight test which later docked with the International Space Station. NASA via Getty Images hide caption
The new Airbus A320neo takes off for its first test flight at Toulouse-Blagnac airport in southwestern France on Sept. 25, 2014. The owner of Air India announced a deal Tuesday to buy 250 Airbus jets, including A350 wide-body planes and A320neo single-aisle planes in a deal worth billions of dollars. Frederic Lancelot/AP hide caption
Zipporah Kuria, of London, carries a photo of her deceased father Joseph Waithaka as she walks into federal court for the Boeing arraignment hearing in Fort Worth, Texas on Thursday. Waithaka was killed in 2019 crash of a Boeing 737 Max airliner. LM Otero/AP hide caption