However, the mechanic was on vacation when the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 was being assembled. The door plug was opened and later closed, yet the retention bolts were not installed.

United Airlines and Alaska Airlines found loose bolts and other hardware ... Spirit makes the body for the 737 Max, including installing the door plugs on models configured not to use the optional ...

An Alaska Airlines 737 MAX suffered a terrifying mid-flight door plug failure, forcing an emergency landing. Looking back, pilots analyze the ATC communications and the crew’s life-saving response.

US authorities have grounded most of Boeing’s 737 ... installed door plugs, comprising the vast majority of the roughly 218 Max 9s in service around the world. Alaska and United Airlines are ...

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 plane maker was seeking to scale back a settlement with Justice Department.

Alaska and United began to return ... as an added layer of safety, airlines should visually inspect the 737-900ER mid-exit door plugs to ensure the door is properly secured. The 737-900ER is ...

"I'm excited to announce that we found the door ... by Alaska Airlines CEO Ben Minicucci hours after the plane’s emergency landing, it was revealed that all of the airline’s Boeing 737-9 ...

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 ...

Alaska late Friday grounded all its 65 Boeing 737-9 aircraft and will return them to service after safety inspections. [WATCH: Section blows out of plane, forces Alaska Airlines flight back to PDX ...