NTSB investigators examine the Boeing 737 Max 9 door plug from Alaska Airlines Flight 1282. (National Transportation Safety Board) By Samantha Masunaga Staff Writer . Feb. 6, 2024 Updated 4:30 PM PT.

Boeing is replacing the head of its 737 Max program at the company's Renton, Washington, facility as it deals with the fallout from an incident involving a Max 9 jet that lost a door plug mid ...

Boeing is redesigning the fuselage component that blew out of a nearly new 737 Max 9 aircraft mid-flight in January, as the planemaker seeks to draw lessons from the accident that has thrown it ...

Boeing Co. is redesigning the fuselage component that blew out of a nearly new 737 Max 9 aircraft mid-flight in January, as the planemaker seeks to draw lessons from the accident that has thrown ...

"At the very least, installers missed something," former NTSB member John Goglia said after the door plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 jet. "It calls into question the process." ...

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 Portland, Ore.

Boeing uses door plugs to cover unused emergency exits on most of its 737 MAX 9 jets. The door plug is visible from outside the plane but looks like a regular partition and window from the inside.

On the first day of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) hearings related to the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 door plug blowout, Boeings representatives said that the company would ...

Door plugs are used on the Boeing 737-900ER, a predecessor of the Max planes, he said, as well as the Max series. The Alaska Airlines plane had just been delivered on Oct. 31, according to the NTSB.

This image taken Jan. 7, 2024, and released by the National Transportation Safety Board, shows the section of a Boeing 737 Max where a door plug fell while Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was in flight.

The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary report on how a door plug blew out of a Boeing 737 Max 9 at 16,000 feet over Portland, Oregon last month. The findings are as bad ...

Boeing is redesigning the fuselage component that blew out of a nearly new 737 Max 9 aircraft mid-flight in January, as the planemaker seeks to draw lessons from the accident that has thrown it ...