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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

In a first for global airlines ... 737 VR simulator will be submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for approval — likely in the next few years. In the interim, Alaska and ...

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 ...

In a first for global airlines, Alaska Airlines will lend expertise from its industry-leading training program to inform development of next generation simulators. Loft enters fixed-wing market ...