'We want answers, accountability, and safer planes' — and a federal investigation will help, an attorney representing passengers who were on the plane that lost its door plug tells NPR.
A photo from the National Transportation Safety Board shows seats that were near the door plug expelled from a Boeing 737 Max 9 in flight. Seats 26A and 26B were unoccupied — a fact that helped prevent the incident from being worse, officials said.after departing an airport in Portland, Oregon in January are being contacted by the FBI about a criminal investigation.
“We are pleased the DOJ is investigating,” Lindquist said. “We want answers, accountability, and safer planes. Pressure from the DOJ should help.” News emerged earlier this month that the Department of Justice was opening a criminal investigation into Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, which took off from Portland shortly after 5 p.m. PST on Jan. 5, bound for Ontario, California.
The debacle is the latest black eye for Boeing, whose reputation was already tarnished by deadly crashes of its 737 Max 8 jets in 2018 and 2019. The Max 8 version of the 737 is around 9 feet shorter than the Max 9.
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