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 Senate subcommittee investigating Boeing released a memo with what it calls a series of failures as part of a probe following the Alaska Airlines door plug incident in January. September 25, 2024 Additional Live Streams Live ABC News Live Live Former President Carter lies in repose at the Car...
"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 ...
Days before Boeing’s deferred prosecution agreement over 737 Max crashes would’ve expired, a door plug blew out during an Alaska Airlines flight, and the case was reopened. Now, attorneys for family members of the crash victims have been told federal prosecutors will seek a guilty plea from...
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy asked Boeing Director of Quality Hector Silva if he was “100 percent sure a defect will not occur tomorrow” and whether he was “100 percent sure there will never be an unauthorized removal” of a door plug. He replied, “No.” Boeing factory workers told the...
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,...
BOEING RESPONDS AFTER BEING REBUKED BY NTSB FOR SHARING DETAILS OF ALASKA AIRLINES DOOR BLOWOUT INVESTIGATION Elizabeth Lund, Boeing Senior Vice President of Quality, speaks to gathered media in front of a slide detailing the plug door blow-out that occurred on January 5, 2024 on Alaska Airlines...
A door plug blowout on a nearly new Boeing 737 Max 9 at the start of the year has brought additional federal scrutiny of Boeing's production lines. "Our aggressive oversight of Boeing continues," the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement on Friday. A spokeswoman for the agency ...
Preliminaryfindings 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 earl
A door plug, which has been recovered, tore off after a plane took off from Portland, Oregon, causing depressurisation and forcing pilots to turn back. Since then, more than 170 planes have been grounded while safety checks are carried out.