Alaska Airlines, United Airlines and Turkish Airlines have grounded their 737 MAX 9 airplanes in the wake of a Friday incident during an Alaska Airlines flight.
The airlines — and others to be announced — took the action over the weekend after part of the plane tore away about 10 minutes into Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 at an altitude of about 16,000 feet.
No one died in the incident by the Federal Aviation Administration ordered the temporary grounding of “certain” Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft. The order covered 171 planes.
Shares of Boeing Co.
BA,
fell 7% in premarket trading as the stock weighed on the Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA.
Read more: How Boeing’s latest 737 Max problem is hurting the Dow
Fuselage maker Spirit Aerosystems Inc.’s stock
SPR,
was down by 13.9%.
Along with United Airlines
UAL,
Alaska Air Group Inc.
ALK,
and Turkish Airlines, Copa Airlines and Aeromexico grounded about 40 Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes, according to reports.
Other airlines with the plane in their fleet include Jet Airways of India with one plane, Jin Air of Korea, with three, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
KLMR,
with five, Korean Air
003490,
with nine, according to Planespotter.net.
Along with the FAA, European regulators also grounded the 737 MAX 9 for inspection.
Some major airlines do not have any 737 MAX 9s in their fleets including American Airlines
AAL,
Southwest Airlines Co.
LUV,
and Air Canada
AC,
according to reports.
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