American Airlines Group Inc. has tacked two weeks onto the time the Boeing Co. 737 Max will remain off its flight schedule, as the aircraft nears the three-month month mark of global grounding after two fatal crashes.
American will scrap about 115 daily flights as it extends the Max cancellations through Sept. 3 from Aug. 19, according to a statement from the Fort Worth, Texas-based carrier. Southwest Airlines Co., the biggest Max operator, has set Aug. 5 for the Max to resume flights, while United Continental Holdings Inc. plans for Aug. 3.
Regulators must re-certify the plane before commercial flights can resume, but say there’s no timeline for when that will happen.
Boeing is finalizing a software fix for a flight-control system malfunction linked to the accidents involving Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines, as well as proposed new pilot training. A combined 346 people were killed in the crashes five months apart.
STERLING, Va. — President Donald Trump on Sunday dangled the prospect of renewing his tariff threat against Mexico if the U.S. ally doesn’t cooperate on border issues, while some of his Democratic challengers for the White House said the last-minute deal to avert trade penalties was overblown.
In a series of tweets, Trump defended the agreement heading off the 5% tax on all Mexican goods that he had threatened to impose Monday, but he warned Mexico that, “if for some unknown reason” cooperation fails, “we can always go back to our previous, very profitable, position of Tariffs.”
Still, he said he didn’t believe that would be necessary.
The tweets came amid questions about just how much of the deal — announced with great fanfare Friday — was really new. It included a commitment from Mexico, for instance, to deploy its new National Guard to the country’s southern border with Guatemala. Mexico, however, had already intended to do that before Trump’s latest threat and had made that clear to U.S. officials. Mexican officials have described their commitment as an accelerated deployment.
DALLAS — One person was killed and at least six others were injured Sunday afternoon when a crane fell into an Old East Dallas apartment building as storms pummeled parts of North Texas.
Crews searching Elan City Lights apartments found a woman inside an apartment after the crane crashed into the east side of the building, Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans said. She was later pronounced dead.
Six other people were hospitalized at Parkland Memorial Hospital and Baylor University Medical Center. Two were transported in critical condition, three were in serious condition and one was treated and released, Evans said. Crews were called just before 2 p.m. local time to the 2600 block of Live Oak Street, near U.S. Highway 75.
Expressway, Evans said. It was not clear late Sunday afternoon whether other people were missing or trapped inside the apartments and collapsed parking garage.
A bright-red pickup truck slammed into a horse-drawn carriage on a rural southern Michigan road Friday, ejecting its seven Amish occupants in a tumbling crash.
Two children, ages 6 and 2, died at the scene in Algansee Township southeast of Battle Creek, police said. The pickup driver was intoxicated, police say. He was arrested at the scene.
A third child, age 4, was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. That child later died, local media reported. Another 3-year old child suffered major injuries. One adult woman also had serious injuries, according to police.
The driver, Tyler Frye, was arrested and held on multiple charges, including three counts of operating while under the influence causing death, two counts of operating under the influence causing injury, and a felony weapons charge, the Branch County Jail said on Sunday.
Frye was arraigned Saturday and was being held on $500,000 bond, the jail said.
— Wire reports