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Four bolts designed to prevent the door plug from falling off the Boeing 737 Max 9 plane were missing before the plug blew off during an Alaska Airlines flight last month, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report of the incident released on Tuesday.

Boeing records reviewed by the NTSB showed that damaged rivets on the edge frame forward of the plug were replaced by Spirit AeroSystems employees at Boeing's factory in Renton, Washington, on Sept. 19, 2023, according to the agency's report. Boeing had to open the plug by removing the two vertical movement arrestor bolts and two upper guide track bolts for the rivets to be replaced, but photo documentation obtained from Boeing showed evidence that the plug was closed with no bolts in three visible locations, according to the NTSB report.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/alaska-airlines-door-plug-ntsb-report/story?id=106992184

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/21/business/boeing-removes-head-of-737-max-program-in-wake-of-safety-incidents

Boeing removes head of 737 Max program in wake of safety incidents

Boeing removed executive Ed Clark, the head of its 737 Max passenger jet program, after a dramatic – and terrifying – midair blowout in January underscored ongoing problems with the jet.

Boeing created a new executive position, Senior Vice President for BCA Quality, and named Elizabeth Lund to that position.

What a novel idea !!!

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Boeing admits it can’t find records on the Alaska Airlines door plug work

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-admits-it-cant-find-records-on-the-alaska-airlines-door-plug-work/

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A sleep-deprived new father of twins and his co-pilot are accused allowing their airliner with 159 people on board to veer off course after they both fell asleep for nearly 30 minutes in the cockpit midair, officials in Indonesia said.

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A sleep-deprived new father of twins and his co-pilot are accused allowing their airliner with 159 people on board to veer off course after they both fell asleep for nearly 30 minutes in the cockpit midair, officials in Indonesia said.

This isn't all that unusual. Ten years or so ago it happened to a Northwest flight crew who overflew their destination, Minneapolis. There was also a case that got a lot of attention in the 70s/80s when an airliner heading west from somewhere in the Midwest overshot its destination and headed out over the Pacific before a stew woke them up.

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PBS Frontline Update on the door that blew out.
Begins at 45:26

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PBS Newshour Report

Boeing remains on the hot seat over questions about its production processes. The head of the National Transportation Safety Board told lawmakers her investigators still don’t know who worked on the door panel that blew out of an Alaska Airlines flight. Meanwhile, NYT reported Boeing and a key supplier failed a number of audits. Aviation correspondent Miles O’Brien spoke on what went wrong.

New details emerge in case of Alaska Airlines plane where door plug blew out

The NTSB said Boeing is blocking it from getting all the information it needs.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/boeing-overwrote-surveillance-footage-door-plug-repair-ntsb/story?id=108084196

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It's like everyday now............

https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1768759641243054323

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FBI tells Alaska Airlines passengers they may be ‘victim of a crime’

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/22/business/alaska-airlines-fbi-passengers-crime-victims/index.html

The US DOJ opened a probe into the incident, and Boeing, in February of this year. That investigation carries the potential to upend a controversial deferred prosecution agreement that Boeing reached with the Justice Department in January of 2021.
 
The deferred prosecution agreement could have ended the threat of Boeing facing criminal liability for those earlier fraud charges. But the Alaska Air incident came just days before a three-year probation-like period was due to end, so the criminal probe could expose Boeing to charges not just for the Alaska Air incident but also the earlier allegations of criminal wrongdoing.

Boeing declined to comment.

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What in the Wide World is this thing?

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What in the Wide World is this thing?

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That was an experimental French delta wing aircraft the Germans captured when France fell in 1940.  The "P" sign on the hanger is probably the logo for the company that built it, it was something like "Payone."  It was destroyed in bombing raid.