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 ...

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 ...