Firefighters have found a dead woman entangled in machinery in a non-public baggage-processing area at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. On Thursday (local time), Larry Langford, a spokesperson for the Chicago Fire Department, said firefighters were called to the airport around 7:45am for a report of a person pinned in machinery used to move baggage. He said they discovered the woman entangled in a conveyor belt system in a baggage room. Police said she was 57 years old but have not released her name. The baggage room wasn't publicly accessible, Langford said, and it's not clear how she found her way into it. Scott Allen, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Labour, said an official with the Occupational Health and Safety Administration visited the scene and learned the woman was not an airport employee. Firefighters turned the scene over to police investigators, and Langford had no more details. The Chicago Police Department's communications office said in an email to The Associated Press that the woman was found unresponsive and pronounced dead on the scene. Detectives have opened an investigation, the office said.<br/>
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Aerospace veteran Robert “Kelly” Ortberg becomes Boeing’s new CEO on Thursday with a singular mission: restoring the reputation of a U.S. manufacturing icon. That enormous goal will involve thousands of daily decisions that will determine whether Boeing can earn back the trust of regulators, airlines and the public; end persistent production defects; deliver aircraft on time and consistently to customers large and small; and stop burning cash. That cash burn is running about $8b so far this year and counting. Meanwhile, Boeing shares are down some 37% so far in 2024, as of Wednesday. Ortberg’s Day 1 activity is walking the floor of Boeing’s factory in Renton, Washington, where it builds its bestselling but problematic 737 Max. He plans to talk with employees and review safety and quality plans, with similar visits ahead at other Boeing plants. “I can’t tell you how proud and excited I am to be a member of the Boeing team,” he said in a note to staff on Thursday. “While we clearly have a lot of work to do in restoring trust, I’m confident that working together, we will return the company to be the industry leader we all expect.” Analysts and industry insiders are cautiously upbeat, painting the 64-year-old Ortberg — a more than three-decade veteran of the industry who spent years atop commercial and defense supplier Rockwell Collins after working up the ranks there — as a good listener with an engineering background (he has a mechanical engineering degree). Perhaps most importantly, he is a Boeing outsider.<br/>
National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy said staff at the agency would like to complete its probe into the Jan. 5 Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 mid-air emergency by early next year. "I think they would like to finish in 12 to 14 months" from the time of the incident, Homendy told Reuters late Wednesday, adding it depends on the NTSB getting the information it needs. The NTSB also needs to complete a safety culture survey of employees at Boeing's 737 MAX factory in Renton, Washington that it plans to begin soon.<br/>
Brazilian planemaker Embraer's Q2 net income jumped by almost 40%, it said on Thursday, beating market expectations and sending its shares sharply higher after increased deliveries of commercial aircraft. The world's third-largest planemaker behind Airbus and Boeing posted adjusted net profit of $80.4m in the three months to June 30, exceeding the $47.66m forecast by analysts polled by LSEG. Embraer had previously reported deliveries of 19 commercial jets in the period, up 12% year on year, pushing up revenue and helping to offset a 10% drop in business jet deliveries. Sao Paulo-traded shares of the planemaker rose as much as 9.5% after the results, making it one of the top performers on benchmark stock index Bovespa and extending its year-to-date gain to more than 85%. The company reaffirmed its outlook for 2024, which includes the delivery of between 72 and commercial aircraft, and 125-135 executive jets, bringing in revenue of between $6b and $6.4bi. "We are fully committed to reaching our full-year guidance, despite all the ongoing supply-chain constraints we continue to deal with," CFO Antonio Carlos Garcia told a call with analysts. Revenue for the quarter was $1.49b, up 15.6% from a year earlier and slightly more than the $1.45b expected by analysts. Its commercial aviation and defense arms stood out with 17% and 130% rises, respectively. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) rose 27.9% to $190.4m, beating the $135.45m expected by analysts, while the EBITDA margin grew 120 basis points to 12.7%.<br/>