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Indonesia's Lion Air finds cracks in two 737 NGs with fewer flights than FAA safety directive

JAKARTA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lion Air has found structural cracks in two Boeing Co 737 NG planes with fewer flights than a U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) threshold for checks, Indonesia's aviation safety regulator said on Friday. An FAA spokesman said the agency had asked operators to report any cracks so it could assess whether it needed to change its inspection orders. The Lion Air jets with cracks had fewer than 22,000 cycles and are now grounded for repairs, a spokesman for the airline said....

REFILE-Indonesia's Lion Air finds cracks in two 737 NGs with fewer flights than FAA safety directive

JAKARTA/WASHINGTON Nov 8 (Reuters) - Lion Air has found structural cracks in two Boeing Co 737 NG planes with fewer flights than a U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) threshold for checks, Indonesia's aviation safety regulator said on Friday. The discovery could make it more likely the FAA will require airline operators to inspect 737 NGs with fewer than 22,600 cycles, which had not been mandated previously. An FAA spokesman said the agency had asked operators to report any cracks so it could assess whether it needed to change its inspection orders....

The Cancer Advance Causing CK Life Sciences’s Stock to Surge

Nov.07 -- Alan Yu, vice president and chief operating officer at CK Life Sciences, discusses the drug advance that’s causing its share price to surge, where he is in the approval process, when the drug will be available to the public, how it’s different from others in the market and their partnerships with other drug makers. He speaks exclusively on “Bloomberg Markets: Asia.”...