The door plug blowout incident on Alaska Airlines' Flight 1282 in January ... What happened on the assembly line which resulted in four critical bolts being removed, to remove a door plug, so ...

A month after the door plug that blew off of an Alaska Airlines plane that took off from PDX, a report has found the incident was due to a manufacturing error. A ...

“I know this Alaska ... missing four bolts that hold it in place when it left Boeing’s factory. The NTSB has received no documentation detailing the opening, closing or securing of that door ...

United Airlines and Alaska Airlines found loose bolts and other hardware in their ... though the National Transportation Safety Board said if the door plug had broken from the Max 9 at cruising ...

Bolts that helped secure a panel to the frame of a Boeing 737 Max 9 were missing before the panel blew off the Alaska Airlines ... which is called a door plug. In the photo, three of the four ...

The move comes after the FAA grounded Max 9s following a January 5 incident in which a plug door on a Max 9 detached on an Alaska flight ... inspection of specific bolts, guide tracks and fittings ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Before a door plug fell from Alaska Airlines Flight 1281, an advisory light came on three times in the Boeing 737 Max 9. The new plane, delivered in October 2023 ...