This comes a year and a half after a door plug blew out on an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9. AS1282 was climbing through 15,000 ft on January 5, 2024, when the left door plug blew out, causing an ...

Systemic failures led to a door plug flying off Alaska Airlines’ Boeing 737 Max, NTSB says By Associated Press Published June 25, 2025, 9:33 a.m. ET ...

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 says the Alaska jet’s door plugs had been properly installed when delivered by Spirit to Boeing’s 737 final assembly site in Renton, Washington.

NTSB finds Boeing failures caused door plug blowout on 737 Max 9 NTSB blames Boeing's inadequate training for the mid-air door plug incident on Alaska Airlines. FAA criticized for oversight failures.

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 ...

FILE - This image taken Jan. 7, 2024, 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 ...

This image taken Jan. 7, 2024, and released by the National Transportation Safety Board, shows the section of a Boeing 737 Max where a door plug fell while Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was in flight.