Airplane fuselages bound for Boeing’s 737 Max production facility sit in storage at their top supplier, Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc, in Wichita, Kansas, U.S. December 17, 2019.
Nick Oxford | Reuters
Shares of Spirit Aerosystems, the fuselage maker for Boeing’s 737 Max jets, surged Friday after a report that Boeing is in talks to acquire the company.
Spirit’s stock was up 16% following the report, while Boeing’s shares traded relatively flat.
A spokesperson for Spirit told CNBC, “We do not comment on market speculation.” Boeing declined to comment on the report.
The report comes less than two months after a section of Boeing 737 Max 9 plane blew out during an Alaska Airlines flight. The Federal Aviation Administration temporarily grounded all of the planes in January, leading to investigations into the hardware malfunctions.
— CNBC’s Leslie Josephs contributed to this report
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