Boeing seems entangled in an endless negative spiral. For several months, the American aircraft manufacturer has had a series of in-flight incidents. Latest on Friday, on a Montreal-Lyon flight, operated by Air Canada with a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, and reported by our colleagues from Le Progrès.
Having left the Quebec metropolis on Friday evening, he was forced to turn around after three hours, while flying over the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, due to a pressurization problem detected in the cabin of the aircraft.
Returning to Montreal, the 254 passengers on the plane were sent home and finally boarded another plane the next evening, flying to Lyon with a stopover in Paris. The same flight scheduled for this Sunday was canceled. “The plane is being inspected by our maintenance and engineering professionals,” Air Canada’s vice-president of communications told Le Progrès.
If the multiple recent incidents are not as serious as the door torn off in mid-flight of a Boeing 737 Max 9 at the start of the year, their recurrence is worrying. Just last week, twice in the space of three days, a Boeing had to make an emergency landing due to a hot smell identified on board the cabin. Two aircraft operated by Air France, which both times were supposed to connect France and the United States, and which had to be diverted to Canada.