The Alaska Airlines plane whose ... four key bolts were missing from the door plug to the Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft when it took off from Portland, Oregon, on Jan. 5. The panel blew off at 16,000 ...

A defective door plug on an Alaska Airlines plane forced an ... Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet lost a panel mid-flight last week, in Beaverton, Ore., Jan. 7, 2024, in this image obtained from social media.

Four bolts were missing from a door panel that blew out of an Alaska Airlines flight last month while the Boeing 737 Max 9 plane was flying over Oregon, according to a preliminary report from the ...

Alaska Airlines told the newspaper that the warnings were not serious enough for it to ground the plane ... door plug, a panel that seals where a door would be and makes it part of the fuselage ...

Bolts securing a panel to the frame of a Boeing 737 MAX 9 were missing on an Alaska Airlines ... is called a door plug, indicates that all four bolts were missing before the plane took off.

The 19-page report of the door plug, which fell 16,000 feet, found that when the panel was removed to conduct repairs, not all four bolts were put back in, leading investigators to confirm that at ...

Federal investigators say a door ... panel in place might have been missing when the plane took off. The comments Monday from the National Transportation Safety Board came shortly after Alaska ...

The airport's director, Amber Judd, said the plane landed safely without incident and the external panel was discovered missing ... door blew off a Boeing Max 9 jet in midair just minutes after an ...

The FBI has told passengers on the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max that lost a door-plug panel in ... bolts used to help secure the panel were missing after the plane was worked on at a Boeing ...