Boeing’s 777X completes its maiden flight

Boeing’s newest flagship twin-engine wide-body has completed its first flight, with the 777X touching down after about four hours aloft.

Saturday’s first flight of this new variant of the 777 — which followed a series of false starts — departed at 10:09 a.m. under cloudy skies from Boeing’s assembly line in Everett, Washington, and touched down at 2 p.m. at Boeing Field in Seattle.