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...
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 ...
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...
He added that along with Alaska Airlines and United, Aeromexico and Turkish Airlines are set to return their 737 MAX 9's to service "in the coming days." The US Federal Aviation Administration grounded 171 MAX 9planesafter the January 5 incident, in which a door plug blew out mid-flight....
Boeing has faced intense scrutiny since a "door plug" fell off a 737 Max 9 jet operated by Alaska Airlines, narrowly averting catastrophe. Alaska Air and United Airlines, the only two U.S. carriers that use the plane, were subsequently forced to ground most of their Max 9s. The National...
Calhoun and Spirit's CEO Pat Shanahan will speak to employees after the midair incident earlier this month when a plug door panel blew off the fuselage of a 737 Max Alaska Airlines plane in flight at about 16,000 feet. Spirit makes fuselages for Boeing. ...
The FAA launched an audit of Boeing’s 737 production line after the Jan. 5 incident in which a door plug panel detached during a flight from Oregon’s Portland International Airport to Ontario, California, at about 16,000 feet, causing the cabin to depressurize and promptingAlaska Airlines fl...
Passengers on anAlaska Airlines flight experienced a terrifying incidentwhen a door plug blew out of the Boeing 737 Max 9 just minutes after takeoff. The fuselage’s side suffered a massive hole at 16,000 feet, causing cabin depressurization, flickering lights, and the deployment of oxygen masks...
Andy Meek 6 months ago Latest Boeing Watch this Netflix Boeing documentary to understand the Alaska Airlines 1282 incident Nobody would blame you if the first thought that ran through your head when you saw the Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 plug door news was … ...
"[T]he dangerous manufacturing conditions that led to the two 737 MAX disasters and the Alaska Airlines accident continue to exist, putting the public at risk," Pierson said, referring to crashes involving Boeing planes in 2018 and 2019, as well as a January incident in which adoor plug fel...