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Secretary of State's Boeing 737 plane failure forces him to abandon aircraft


US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s Boeing jet has been grounded after experiencing a mechanical failure during an overseas trip. Blinken and other State Department officials were forced t…

Blinken and other State Department officials were forced to abandon the aircraft on Wednesday and drive about 190 miles from Paris to Brussels, Belgium, to attend a NATO summit. Boeing has been under fire in recent months since the January 5 incident when a door plug on an Alaska Airlines flight blew off the 737 Max aircraft mid-flight. World’s biggest plane-maker Boeing plunged into CRISIS after parts rain from sky and jet nose-divesBoeing and Alaska Airlines are facing several lawsuits related to the January incident - with more expected.

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