Posted: June 24, 2025 | Last updated: June 24, 2025 After 18 months, NTSB to hold hearing on Alaska 737 door plug incident revealing maintenance errors and missing bolts.

On January 4, 2024, a door plug blew out on a Boeing 737 Max at more than 16,000 feet in the air, leaving a gaping hole in the side. On Tuesday, the National Transportation Safety Board will hear ...

Boeing 737 MAX airplanes are pictured outside a Boeing factory on March 25, 2024 in Renton, Wash. A midair door plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight and subsequent grounding of flights ...

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 ...

While it feels like Boeing has been the subject of an endless stream of worrying quality control discoveries, it's been 18 months since a door plug blew out on a Boeing 737 Max at 14,830 feet over ...

The National Transportation Safety Board is reviewing the door plug blowout aboard an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Jet in 2024. Author: JOSH FUNK Associated Press Published: 6:34 AM PDT June 24, 2025 ...

The National Transportation Safety Board held a two-day hearing on the January "door plug" blowout aboard a Boeing 737 Max 9 plane flown by Alaska Airlines.

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. But Boeing workers discovered that the ...

Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems — the company that made and installed the door plug — are redesigning them with another backup system to keep the panels in place even if the bolts are missing ...

1 of 2 In this National Transportation Safety Board handout photo, plastic covers the exterior of the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, a Boeing 737 Max, on January 7, 2024 in ...