New details revealed of Boeing door plug incident aboard Alaska Airlines flight ABC News' Trevor Ault reports on new details from the flight crew and the severe production issues inside the Boeing 737 plant leading up to the incident. August 7, 2024 ...
A National Transportation Safety Boardpreliminary report releasedin February found that four bolts designed to prevent the door plug from falling off the Boeing 737 Max 9 plane were missing before the flight. MORE: Alaska Airlines timeline: How incident involving missing door plug u...
"This incident should have never happened and it cannot happen again," the FAA said Tuesday. "The FAA is continuing to support the National Transportation Safety Board's investigation into the Jan. 5 door plug incident." A Boeing spokesperson said the company is revi...
The door blowout happened aboard only one flight. But fallout from the ensuing safety crisis has inflated costs for those reliant on Boeing. Interviews with airline executives, union leaders, pilots, suppliers, passengers and government officials, show how the incident is rippling ...
WhistleblowerSam Mohawkis speaking publicly for the first time about the problems he's seen during his 13 years working in quality assurance at Boeing's commercial airplane factories. Months before the door plug incident, Mohawk said he warned bothBoeingand federal regulators about lapses in safety...
In January, Alaska Airlines flight 1282 nearly fell out of the sky when it lost a door plug at an altitude of more than 10,000ft, leading to rapid decompression of the main cabin of the plane. Although no one was killed, the incident happened after two similar Boeing-manufactured737 Max...
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...
New details revealed of Boeing door plug incident aboard Alaska Airlines flight ABC News' Trevor Ault reports on new details from the flight crew and the severe production issues inside the Boeing 737 plant leading up to the incident. 5 months ago ...
"This incident should have never happened and it cannot happen again," the FAA said in astatement. Boeing said it "will cooperate fully and transparently with the FAA and the NTSB on their investigations." Door plugs are commonly used on U.S. commercial carriers to seal...
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...