Boeing crisis grows as airplane giant lays off more than 100 employees

Boeing has announced it is laying off more than 100 employees as the company sinks deeper into crisis. 

Boeing filed a WARN notice, a legal announcement of planned mass layoffs, with the Alabama department of commerce. 

Overall 128 job will be cut at the company's Huntsville plant beginning on June 28. Boeing says the job losses are linked to delays in a contrac with Nasa in its space division. 

It comes as the company's commerical planes division battles multiple allegations of safety failures, lawsuits and three planes with technical issues in just two days. 

'We have notified some team members in Huntsville of a potential layoff, as programs are affected by decisions external to Boeing,' the beleaguered company said in a statement. 

Overall 128 job will be cut at the company's Huntsville plant in Alabama 

Shocking footage emerged of the moment terrified passengers fled a burning Boeing jet that skidded off the runway and caught fire in Senegal early Thursday morning

Boeing added that it will explore alternative jobs within the corporation for workers affected. The notice was filed on on April 30.

Boeing employs more than 3,000 people at its Huntsville plant and says it has been affected by the delay of NASA's Artemis II and III missions which has contracts with the company's Space & Security division. 

On Thursday, a Boeing plane's tire burst during landing in Turkey, the third passenger aircraft built by the manufacturing giant to suffer a technical problem or crash in just two days.

A total of 190 people were evacuated from the aircraft after the Boeing 737-800, belonging to Turkey-based Corendon Airlines, stopped on the runway after landing at Gazipasa airport near the Mediterranean coastal town of Alanya.

Pictures from the scene today showed the stationary aircraft on the tarmac flanked by emergency vehicles - its front wheels and landing gear crumpled underneath.

While none of the 184 passengers and six crew members on the flight from Cologne, Germany to Turkey were injured, the dramatic landing was just the latest in a string of hair-raising incidents involving Boeing planes over the last two days.

On Wednesday, a Boeing 767 cargo plane operated by FedEx made an emergency landing at Istanbul Airport after its front landing gear failed. Dramatic video showed the nose of the plane skidding across the runway as it came to a halt.

Furthermore on Thursday morning, shocking footage emerged showing the moment terrified passengers fled a burning Boeing 737-300 jet carrying 78 passengers that skidded off the runway and caught fire during take-off in Senegal.

A clip taken by one horrified passenger showed a female customer sprinting away from the scene of the wreckage as flames poured from the 737's left engine, lighting up the night sky

Emergency crews rushed to evacuate the passengers, eleven of whom were injured, four seriously so

A Boeing 738 plane of Corendon Airlines that operated Cologne-Antalya flight gets stuck on runway due to a burst tire in Antalya, Turkiye on May 9, 2024

There is no suggestion Boeing are to blame for the crashes, and the cause of the Senegal crash is not yet known.

But the incidents will only compound woes for the company which is already facing intense scrutiny amid a string of mishaps and controversy over safety concerns - as well as the deaths of two whistleblowers just two months apart.

Current CEO Dave Calhoun announced in March he would be stepping down at the end of this year in a management overhaul, with share prices plunging.

And passengers are said to be deliberately changing flights to avoid Boeing's fleet or travelling with anti-anxiety medication.