Bolts that helped secure a panel to the frame of a Boeing 737 Max 9 were missing before the panel blew off the Alaska Airlines plane last month, according to accident investigators. The National ...

The 2-foot-by-4-foot (61-centimeter-by-122-centimeter) piece of fuselage covering an unused emergency exit behind the left wing had blown out. Only seven seats on the flight were unoccupied, including ...

Key bolts were missing The NTSB investigation of the blowout found that four bolts securing what is known as the door plug panel were removed and never replaced during a repair as the Boeing 737 Max 9 ...

A lawsuit from the captain of the Alaska Airlines flight that lost a panel in midair in 2024 says Boeing tried to "scapegoat" the pilots.

The Alaska Airlines captain who guided a crippled jet back to Portland after a midair […] ...

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Alaska We need them. At 16,000 ft. 177 passengers experienced the unimaginable. There was just *** really loud boom. *** panel flies off their Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft shortly after takeoff.