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United Airlines said Monday that it has found loose bolts during ... examining the door plug and the frame it was blown out of, as well as all the components used to keep it in place to determine ...
Airplane deliveries ... report found that the door plug appeared to have been removed and then reinstalled at a Boeing factory without four bolts needed to keep it attached. The 737 Max 9 includes ...
And yet neither Boeing nor the National Transportation Safety Board know how a 737 Max was delivered to Alaska Airlines without the four bolts needed to keep a door plug in place. What is known ...
A teenage passenger had his shirt ripped off his body when a door plug blew ... the incident on Monday. Four bolts that were helping to hold the blown out plug in place are unaccounted for ...
Investigators closely examined the recovered MED, looking for witness marks that would indicate the four required restraining bolts designed to keep the door in place ... the MED plug were missing ...
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) discovered four bolts, which should have held the door plug in place, were missing ... Involvement Teams across Airplane Programs and Fabrication ...
Feb. 6: In preliminary report, NTSB says bolts were missing Four critical bolts were missing from the plane whose door plug explosively blew off the Alaska Airlines flight, the NTSB says in its ...
The National Transportation Safety Board last month said in a preliminary report that four bolts that secure the door plug were missing before the panel blew off the plane. Boeing has recently ...
Investigators determined early on that the door plug blew out because a worker or a team of Boeing workers failed to reinstall four bolts needed to secure the door plug in place. But after more ...
The door plug was ripped off ... hardware that was supposed to keep it secured was never installed in the first place. The fracture was found on the outermost of four layers of windows surrounding ...