All Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes have been grounded for safety reasons after an unused cabin door came away from an Alaska Airlines airplane minutes after take-off on January 5, 2024. Lonely Planet’s resident aviation journalist and airline expert, John Walton, breaks down what happened, what come...
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to Atlas Air for cargo deliveries. Five years ago, 346 people were killed in two plane crashes that happened five months apart, in Indonesia and Ethiopia. Both were Boeing 737 Max 8 planes. Then, this past January, Boeing came inches from yet another catastrophe as a door plug blew off ...
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Boeing has been in the headlines a lot lately following a series of incidents after the January Alaska Airlines near-miss in which a door panel came off mid-flight. The episodes point to production and maintenance issues, say experts, who don't see an obvious pattern behind the myriad incide...
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In the two-day hearing, which concludes Wednesday, the National Transportation Safety Board aims to pinpoint what went wrong and craft recommendations after a fuselage panel known as a door-plug suddenly came off mid-flight on an Alaska Airlines plane. ...
“When the door came off and they called [the planes] in and found other aircraft with issues, I thought ‘Hmm,’” she said. “It’s just not an aircraft I’d want to fly.” Grimes is a self-declared “avgeek,” or aviation fanatic – and she’s not the only one monitoring th...
It was already well known thatno documentation was foundto show who worked on the door plug, which came off the plane after it had reached around 16,000 feet in the air causing an uncontrolled decompression, which injured a few passengers and even tore one’s shirt off. ...
Nearly a year after a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 aircraft, Boeing says it has made strides improving safety for airline passengers.