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The flight attendants on board Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, where the door plug blew out in January 2024, are now suing ...

The NTSB determined that "multiple system failures," including poor practices at Boeing and poor oversight by the FAA, caused the Alaska Airlines flight door plug blowout in January 2024.

NTSB investigators have made multiple visits to Boeing facilities and created a special team to handle requesting and processing documents from Boeing and its key contractor, Spirit AeroSystems.

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.

NTSB staff also told the board that Boeing didn’t have strong enough safety practices in place to ensure the door plug was properly reinstalled, and the FAA inspection system did not do a good ...

The NTSB had previously said that four bolts which were supposed to hold the door plug in place were missing when the Boeing 737 Max jet was delivered to Alaska Airlines in October 2023.

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