The incident has prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to indefinitely halt Boeing's ambitious plans to raise production of Max planes. Passengers have filed class-action lawsuits against the company. And some infuriated airline executives are taking the rare step of criticizing Boeing publicly and expressing doubt about its ability to deliver planes when they were expected.
Compounding problems for Boeing, the company said on Sunday that a supplier had found a new problem with fuselages on dozens of unfinished 737 Max planes. In a note to employees, Stan Deal, the chief executive of Boeing's commercial plane unit, said that the supplier last week identified that two holes may not have been drilled exactly to our requirements.
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