Four bolts meant to hold the Boeing 737 Max 9 door plug in place were missing last month when part of a planeblew out on an Alaska Airlines flight,the National Transportation Safety Board found in a preliminary report released on Tuesday. Thedoor plug,which covers a...
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Tuesday in its preliminary investigative report that four key bolts were "missing" when a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines flight in midair on January 5. "Overal...
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 ...
NTSB releases preliminary report on fatal BSO helicopter crash The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary report Friday on the fatal crash involving a Broward Sheriff's Office helicopter last month. Sep 8, 2023 00:34 50-car train derailmen...
Alaska Airlines “engineers and technicians” had concerns and the aircraft was due to go out of service that evening. The NYT implies that the airline should have immediately taken the plane out of passenger service. They report that “Alaska Airlines says the plane did not meet its standards...
NTSB report on Crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 1 Thread starter 3DDave Start date Jan 4, 2014 Not open for further replies. Jan 4, 2014 1 #1 3DDave Aerospace May 23, 2013 10,834 Report NTSB/AAR-02/01 is available free from the U.S. NTSB. The crash occurred January 31,...
The Federal Aviation Administration grounded approximately 171 Max 9s worldwide following the incident earlier this year. Alaska Airlines resumed flying the Boeing 737 Max 9 following fleet inspections on Jan. 26. An NTSB preliminary report released last month found that four bolts designed to preven...
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The bolts from the exit-door plug thatblew out of an Alaska Airlines flightlast month likely were not reinstalled after work was done on the plug last September at Boeing's factory in Renton, Wash., a preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has found....
A final report is not expected for a year or more. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy has testified about the missing paperwork at Congressional hearings since the preliminary report was released. Boeing is addressing the problem by slowing down its assembly lines, and making sure that planes don’...