The door plug was found in a high school science teacher’s backyard in Cedar Hills, Oregon. No one from the airline was called to testify this week before the NTSB. Goglia, the former safety board member, said that indicates the agency has determined “that Alaska has no dirty hands in...
"I have not seen nor heard of anybody say that there was an inspection requirement on this (door plug installation). There should be," said Goglia. "Anything that's a single point of failure that's going to cause you a potential crash needs to be checked both by t...
The lost door plug wasdiscovered Sundayin the backyard of a teacher in the Portland metropolitan area. Two cell phones which were sucked out of the plane were also found on the ground in the Portland area,one of whichwas still working. Homendy called Friday's event "an accident,...
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 ...
SEATTLE - The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said its investigation into the 737-9 MAX door plug fallout has been complicated after Boeing informed the agency that security video investigators requested had been overwritten.According to the NTSB, they still have not been informed by Boe...
FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker says his agency’s review of everything that has happened since the accident, including gathering information about inspections of door plugs on 40 other planes, gives him confidence that they will be safe so long as the new inspection process is followed. ...
The departures come as airlines and regulators have been increasing calls for major changes at the company after a host of quality and manufacturing flaws on Boeing planes. Scrutiny intensified after aJan. 5 accident, when a door plug blew out of a nearly new Boeing 737 Max 9 minutes into an...
a Boeing spokesperson confirmed to CBS News. "We're going to approach it with 100% and complete transparency every step of the way. We are going to work with the NTSB who is investigating the accident itself to find out what the cause is. We have a long experience with this group. The...
according topreliminary investigation results. While there were no serious injuries, the accident put the spotlight back onBoeing's safety proceduresand a series of manufacturing flaws that required changes at the company's factories, including what led up to the door plug getting removed, but not...
An Alaska Airlines Max 9 was forced to make anemergency landingon Jan. 5 after a panel called a door plug blew out of the side of the plane shortly after takeoff from Portland, Oregon. The NTSBis investigatingthe accident, while the FAA investigates whether Boeing and its suppliers followed...