While the Boeing 737-900ER has been in use for nearly two decades, the FAA said it has the same door plug design as the Boeing 737 Max 9 jet involved in the Alaska Airlines' mid-air incident. In the U.S., there are about 380 of the 737-900ER aircraft in service, primarily...
Boeing CEO Dave Calhounis planning to meet with a group of senators on Capitol Hill this week as the company deals with the 737 Max 9 grounding in the wake of an accident in which a plane’s plug door panel blew off in mid-air earlier this month, according to a report by Reuters. C...
"For domestic purposes, they put interior panels across that door such that the passengers would normally never see it," said Doug Rice, a commercial pilot for more than four decades before retiring. Rice frequently served as a captain flying earlier models of 737s, equipped...
The first thing to note is that the “window plug” is primarily a US market issue. In the table below we have outlined the number of B737-900 MAX flights that were scheduled for service this week and you can clearly see the carriers that have been affected....
1.1 最初设计 Initial design 1.2 主要设计发展 Major design developments 1.3 启动 Launch 1.4 投入商业 Introduction 2. 世代及子型号 Generations and variants 2.1 第一代 737 Original (first generation) 2.2 第二代 737 Classic (second generation) 2.3 第三代 737 NG (third generation) 2.4 第四代 737...
Preliminary findings from an independent investigation show that a handful of key bolts appear to be missing from the door plug that blew out of a Boeing Co (NYSE:BA) 737 Max 9 plane midflight in early January. What To Know: New photos released Tuesday appear to show four key bolts were...
Bolts needed to secure the exit door plug that ripped off an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 in January were removed on the Boeing factory floor as part of an unrelated pre-delivery repair and never re-installed, a preliminary NTSB report on the accident suggests. Analysis by investigators ...
A new chief executive takes over at Boeing on Thursday, and he plans to walk the floor of the factory near Seattle that has become the heart of the aerospace giant's troubles.
airlines should also inspect the panels on an older model, the 737-900ER. Those planes have door plugs that are identical in design to the one that flew off the Alaska Airlines jetliner. Boeing said Monday, Jan. 22, 2024that it supports the FAA action. Credit: AP Photo/Richard Drew, ...
The FAA launched an audit of Boeing’s 737 production line after the Jan. 5 incident in which a door plug panel detached during a flight from Oregon’s Portland International Airport to Ontario, California, at about 16,000 feet, causing the cabin to depressurize and promptingAlaska Airlines fl...