A defective door plug on an Alaska Airlines plane forced an emergency landing.
In this National Transportation Safety Board handout, NTSB Investigator-in-Charge John Lovell examines the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX, on Jan. 7, 2024, in Portland, Oregon. A door-sized section near the rear of the Boeing 737-9 MAX plane blew off 10 minutes after Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 took off from Portland, Oregon on January 5 on its way to Ontario, California.
In statements released since Friday, Boeing has said it is aware of the incident and fully supports the FAA's decision to require immediate inspections of certain 737 Max 9 planes. Debris recovered from the crash site sits on the dockside at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Oct. 29, 2018. A Boeing Co. 737 Max jet, operated by Indonesia's Lion Air, crashed in the Java Sea with 189 people on board.: Alaska Airlines removes 18 planes from service until details about possible additional maintenance work are confirmed with the FAA, the airline announces.
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