A two-day National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) hearing begins Tuesday, focusing on the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 MAX door plug blowout that occurred in January. Elizabeth Lund, senior ...

NTSB staff also told the board that Boeing didn’t have strong enough safety practices in place to ensure the door plug was properly reinstalled, and the FAA inspection system did not do a good ...

Boeing factory workers told NTSB investigators they felt pressured to work too fast and were asked to perform jobs they weren’t qualified for, including opening and closing the door plug on the ...

The flight attendants on board Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, where the door plug blew out in January 2024, are now suing ...

NTSB says systemic failures led to door plug flying off 737 Max plane midflight The blow out during Alaska Airlines flight 1282 happened minutes after it took off from Portland in January of 2024.

The NTSB had previously said that four bolts, which were supposed to hold the door plug in place, were missing when the Boeing 737 Max jet was delivered to Alaska Airlines in October 2023.

Members of the NTSB examine the hole in the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max flight in which a door plug blew out on January 7, 2024. - NTSB/Getty Images ...

Boeing has not turned over important records to investigators probing the door plug blowout on a 737 Max earlier this year, investigators say. That, Boeing signaled Wednesday afternoon, is because ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officially faults Boeing for a door plug flying off in mid-air during an Alaska Airlines flight leaving Portland ...

An NTSB investigation over the past 17 months found that bolts securing what is known as the door plug panel were removed and never replaced during a repair. Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems — the ...

NTSB staff also told the board that Boeing didn't have strong enough safety practices in place to ensure the door plug was properly reinstalled, and the FAA inspection system did not do a good job ...