"The Boeing 737-900ER is not part of the newer MAX fleet but has the same door plug design," it added. The door plug on a 737-9 MAX plane detached just minutes after Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 took off from Portland, Oregon on Jan. 5 and reached 16,000 feet. The loss of the...
Image:Pic: Reuters. The newspaper reports staff were so worried about the mounting evidence of a problem that they wanted the plane to come out of service the next evening (the day of the incident) for maintenance work, quoting interviews and documents. Alaska Airl...
There was no evidence the door was opened again after it left the Boeing factory, the report added, increasing pressure on one of the world's two biggest plane makers. The investigation was commenced by the investigative agency National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in ea...
000 feet when the door plug blew off, an NTSB official said during a Saturday press briefing. The gaping hole in the side of the jet opened up where Boeing fits a plug to cover an emergency exit that the airline doesn't use, The Associated Press explained...
In a statement to CBS News, Boeing said, "We fully support the FAA and our customers in this action." The Alaska Airlines flight was aBoeing 737 Max 9 jet,part of a line of aircraft that was first introduced in 2016 and that has been plagued with safety issues. Door plugs are ...
CRITICAL PIECE OF ALASKA AIRLINES BOEING PLANE FOUND IN PORTLAND SCHOOL TEACHER’S BACKYARD Homedy added that materials engineers will be looking at all aspects of the door including bolts, washer, nuts and other components. "We don’t know if the bolts were loose, we don’t...
"If there had been a passenger holding a kid close to where that panel blew off, the explosive force was such that a kid being held would have been torn from the hands of their parents, and they would have been sucked out of the plane," Kwasi Adjekum, assistant professor at U...
Thefindings of investigators and the airlinesare ratcheting up pressure on Boeing to address concerns that have grown since theterrifying fuselage blowoutFriday night. A plug covering a spot left for an emergency door tore off the plane as it flew 16,000 feet (4,800 meters) above...
The bolts failed on the door plug on the Alaska Airlines flight, but investigators don’t know if those bolts stayed in place or whether they were blown off during decompression. NTSB The NTSB shared this diagram of the door plug in a Boeing 737 MAX 9. In a press briefing on Mon...
Instead of removing the plane from service, the newspaper reported that the airline decided to continue flying the plane and scheduled a maintenance check for the night of Jan. 5. DOJ OPENS PROBE INTO ALASKA AIRLINES PLANE BLOWOUT: REPORT A door panel on a Boeing 737-9 MAX blew of...