Boeing is taking a $4.9bn hit to cover costs related to the worldwide grounding of its 737 Max aircraft.
The charge is set to wipe out profits when the world’s biggest planemaker posts quarterly results next week.
In a statement, Boeing also said its “best estimate at this time” is that the aircraft will return to service in the last three months of this year.
A 737 Max crash in Indonesia in October, and another in Ethiopia in March, killed 346 people in total.
Via BBC/Boeing
