The fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX, which was forced to make an emergency landing with a gap in the fuselage, is seen during its investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (...
NTSB shares evidence on Alaska Airlines door blowout Top Boeing executives are being confronted with evidence and witness testimony during two days of hearings examining breakdowns that led to the midair blowout. August 6, 2024 Additional Live Streams ...
The door plug of Alaska Airlines flight 1282 fell off a few minutes after take off from Portland International Airport on Jan. 5. Passengers captured footage showing a hole where the door plug came loose on the Boeing 737 Max 9 plane. The plane safely made an emergency landing and no one...
NTSB rebukes Boeing after top exec discloses detail on Alaska Airlines blowout NTSB sends letter to David Calhoun, President and CEO of the Boeing Company[PDF] Boeing to buy supplier Spirit AeroSystems in $4.7bn deal Boeing plans to acquire Spirit AeroSystems in an all-stock transaction. Spiri...
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 ...
Boeing was sanctioned by the NTSB for disclosing non-public information about the door plug that blew out on an Alaska Airlines flight. Boeing apologized for disclosing the information and said it is working hard to regain the trust of airlines, regulators and the public. NBC News'...
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...
Boeing previously had problems with the 737 Max 8, a different version of the plane than the one flown in the January Alaska Airlines incident. In 2018, aLion Air flighton a Boeing 737 Max 8 plane crashed into the ocean. The following year, anEthiopian Airlinesplan...
were not replaced after a repair job in a Boeing factory, but the company said the work was not documented, the government agency found in a preliminaryreport.The captain of the Alaska Airlines described "an explosive experience" and said he could not communicate with flight attendants, according...
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