What happened on the assembly line which resulted in four critical bolts being removed, to remove a door plug?

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 ...

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg will testify in a Senate hearing on Wednesday about Boeing’s production quality and safety culture following a series of safety incidents.

Investigators have released photographs of the door plug that detached from Alaska Airlines flight headed from Portland, Oregon to Ontario, California on Friday night, terrifying passengers and ...

The California-bound flight had to ... Friday when the plane’s door plug blew out as it was approximately 16,000 feet in the air. In a news release from Alaska Airlines, the airline states ...

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 ...

referring further questions to Alaska Airlines. Alaska released a statement that said Flight 1282 with 171 passengers and six crew members “experienced an incident this evening soon after depart ...

This image taken on Jan. 7 and released by the National Transportation Safety Board, shows the section of a a Boeing 737 Max where a door plug fell while Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was in flight.

United Airlines and Alaska Airlines found ... following Friday evening's emergency landing of Alaska Flight 1282 after an emergency door panel popped out from the fuselage shortly after takeoff ...

NTSB via Getty Three of the passengers on Alaska ... Flight 1282 — which traveled from Portland, Oregon to Ontario, California — survived its emergency landing, which occurred after a plug ...