A fiery MD-11 plane crash on Nov. 4 in Louisville, Kentucky, killed 14 people and injured at least 23 when the left engine detached during takeoff.
Michael Whitaker had served as deputy FAA administrator during the Obama administration.
Boeing factory workers have voted against the company’s latest contract offer and will remain on the picket lines six weeks into a strike.
Boeing’s CEO says the company will begin laying off a large number of employees to save cash during the strike by union machinists.
The labor action involves 33,000 Boeing machinists, most of them in Washington state.
An eight-week strike in 2008, the longest at Boeing since a 10-week walkout in 1995, cost the company about $100 million a day in deferred revenue.
Authorities say a United Airlines Boeing jet lost a main landing gear wheel while taking off from Los Angeles.
The DOJ says Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge stemming from two deadly crashes of 737 Max jetliners.
Boeing announced plans to acquire Spirit AeroSystems for $4.7 billion in an all-stock transaction for the manufacturing firm, which already was part of the aerospace company's manufacturing chain.
The U.S. Justice Department is pushing Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud in connection with two deadly plane crashes involving its 737 Max jetliners.