Several Boeing suppliers face uncertainties about their own production plans and overall financial outlook, because of Boeing’s recent woes.
Boeing’s list of troubles doesn’t seem to be getting any smaller. We have already seen how Spirit AeroSystems is under the same intense scrutiny as Boeing, after the MAX-9 door plug blowout last January.
Photo: Spirit AeroSystemsBut these issues cause production delays, and the delays trigger financial burdens for Boeing suppliers. Investors and market observers were expecting Spirit’s Q1 results to be bad – but they were much worse than expectations.
Spirit supplies “shipsets” for both the 737 and the 787. And with both of these programs facing delays, Spirit’s liquidity is coming under threat. The company’s free cash dropped from $824 million last December, to $352 at the end of Q1.
Photo: Dan Bennett, CC BY 2.0Head Scratching for Boeing SuppliersThese and other bad results also impact Spirit&rsquo..

The crew of a FedEx Boeing 767 had to land with their nose gear retracted, after getting an unsafe gear indication. There were no injuries.
This accident happened on Wednesday the 8th of May. It involved flight FX-6238, departing from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (LFPG). The flight’s destination is Istanbul Airport (LTFM) in Turkey.
Photo: @JacdecNew via X (formerly Twitter)This is a back-of-the-clock flight, departing from Paris at 3:36 AM. On the day of this accident, the FedEx 767 crew left Paris on time, making what appears to be a routine departure using runway 09R.
Then after spending most of their cruise at FL390, the crew set up an approach into Istanbul’s runway 16R. However, the FedEx crew abandoned their first approach at approximately 1,650 feet, because their 767 gave them an unsafe gear indication.
Photo: @JacdecNew via X (formerly Twitter)FedEx 767 Stops Safely on the RunwayThe crew climbed back up to 3,000 feet, as they worked through their checklists. Ab..