(Reuters) - After a door panel on an Alaska Airlines-operated Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet blew off midair in January, Anneke Palmerton learned the carrier had canceled her flight to Orlando as well. It did not surprise her as Alaska had decided to ground its fleet of MAX 9...
A door panel on a Boeing 737-9 MAX blew off mid-flight after Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 took off from Portland International Airport on Jan. 5.(NTSB / Fox News) The logs show that the repairs were finally finished and signed off on the morning of Sept. 20 after ...
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...
WATCH: ALASKA AIRLINES PASSENGER CAPTURES HORRIFYING MOMENTS AFTER PLANE PART BLEW OFF MIDAIR Certain Boeing 737 MAX 9 airliners have been grounded after a plug door blew off an Alaska flight from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California.((Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images) / Getty Images)...
Thedoor plug,which covers an unused exit door, is typically secured with four bolts to prevent it from moving vertically, according to the report. The door blew off anAlaska Airlines Max 9 at about 16,000 feetover Oregon during a trip to California on Jan. 5, forcing an emergency landing...
Four key bolts were missing from the door that blew off an Alaska Airlines plane in mid-air in January, according to a preliminary report from a US regulator. The door panel, known as a plug, had been removed to fix rivets damaged in production, the initial report said...
When a panel known as a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines flight minutes after takeoff earlier this year, a quality investigator at the factory where the Boeing plane was manufactured says he wasn't surprised; he said he was almost expecting something like this would happen. Whistle...
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Tuesday in its preliminary investigative report that four key bolts were "missing" when a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines flight in midair on January 5. "Overal...
Boeing’s CEO couldn’t say who worked on the door panel that blew off an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 because the company had no records BY Associated Press March 14, 2024 Politics Boeing sanctioned by U.S. after it ‘blatantly violated’ signed agreement by sharing information about 737...
Jan. 8, 2024, in Portland. The panel, used to plug an area reserved for an exit door on the Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner, blew out Jan. 5, shortly after the flight took off from Portland, forcing the plane to return to Portland International Airport. (Nation...