New Quality Problems Rock Boeing And Trigger FAA Probe
The Alaska 737-9’s door-plug loss and rapid decompression caused significant interior damage.
Credit: NTSB
Mandatory inspections triggered by the nearly disastrous Jan. 5 inflight loss of a fuselage insert from an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 point to production problems traced to aerostructures supplier Spirit AeroSystems, creating both a plausible explanation of what happened to the Alaska aircraft and...
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