{"id":44480,"date":"2019-03-12T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-airlines-not-yet-flying-boeing-jet-involved-in-crash\/"},"modified":"2019-03-12T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T11:00:00","slug":"alaska-airlines-not-yet-flying-boeing-jet-involved-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-airlines-not-yet-flying-boeing-jet-involved-in-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Airlines not yet flying Boeing jet involved in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE &mdash; Alaska Airlines is not flying the type of Boeing jets involved in a deadly Ethiopian Airways crash but has orders pending for the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The Anchorage Daily News reported that the company says its fleet does not currently include the Boeing 737 Max 8 jets involved in a crash Sunday that killed all 157 people on board.<\/p>\n<p>A Max 8 aircraft also crashed in Indonesia in October, killing 189 people.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska Airlines says it placed a $5 billion order for 20 Max 8 and 17 Max 9 models in 2012 with plans to begin using them this summer, but it is &ldquo;too early to speculate on future deliveries.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Some international airlines say they are grounding their Max aircraft, while many American companies say they do not plan to do so.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 This is an Associated Press report.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company says fleet does not currently include the Boeing 737 Max 8 jets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":44481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-44480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44480"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=44480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}