This image taken Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, and released by the National Transportation Safety Board, shows a section of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 that is missing panel on a Boeing 737-9 MAX in Portland, Ore. Federal officials are investigating Boeing's oversight of production of a panel that ...
The NTSB had not made a determination as to what caused the mid exit door plug to fly off until it released its preliminary findings about the missing bolts Tuesday. The door plug is held in place by four bolts and then secured with "stop fittings" at 12 points along the panel. "The ...
The FAA capped production at 38 737 Max planes per month in January after a door panel missing four key bolts flew off an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 during a flight that month, exposing serious safety issues at Boeing. Whitaker last week declined to say when he thought the FAA wou...
The FAA capped production at 38 737 MAX planes per month in January after a door panel missing four key bolts flew off an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 during a flight that month, exposing serious safety issues at Boeing. Whitaker last week declined to say when he thought the FAA would restor...
The extended grounding of some Boeing 737 Max jetliners is adding to pressure on Boeing and the subcontractor that made the fuselage and installed a panel that blew out leaving a gaping hole in an Alaska Airlines plane last ...
On March 15, a United Boeing 737-800 landed in Medford, Oregon, missing an external panel. While no passengers were injured, the incident was just one in a line of recent mishaps on United flights - all involving Boeing jets. In just the last month, another United Boeing plane spewed fla...
Whitaker capped production at 38 737 MAX planes per month in January after a door panel missing four key bolts flew off an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 in midair that month, exposing serious safety issues at Boeing. The FAA said last month that it was opening a new safety review into...
Explainer-What Is the Panel That Blew off a Boeing Plane in Mid-Air? More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Passenger oxygen masks hang from the roof next to a missing window and a portion of a side wall of an Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, which had been bound for Ontario, Califo...
In January a panel plugging an unused emergency exit blew out of a 737 max over Oregon. Thankfully the plane landed safely. A preliminary investigation into the near-disaster concluded that the bolts that should keep the panel in place were missing. The incident prompted internal investigations ...
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said the safety board was investigating whether four bolts that help prevent the panel from sliding up on rollers were missing when the plane took off from Portland or whether they blew off “during the violent, explosive decompression event.” ...