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 ...

The door plug of Alaska Airlines flight 1282 fell off a few ... A National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report released in February found that four bolts designed to prevent the door ...

Alaska Airlines said a warning light found before the flight took off did not suggest the aircraft needed to be taken out of service, according to reports.

United Airlines and Alaska Airlines found loose bolts and ... though the National Transportation Safety Board said if the door plug had broken from the Max 9 at cruising altitude of 36,000 feet ...

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 ...

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. An Alaska spokesperson told Kiplinger in an email that ...