Jennifer Homendy, Chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, speaks during investigative hearing, into the blowout of a left mid exit door plug on a Boeing 737-9 MAX during Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 flight on January 5, 2024, at the National Transportation Safety Board headquarters in Washington D.C. United States on August 6, 2024.
(Photo by Bryan Olin Dozier/Anadolu via Getty Images)A Boeing safety executive told a federal safety hearing on Tuesday that the company is working on design changes to avoid a repeat of the near catastrophic blowout of a door plug from a practically new 737 Max 9 at the start of the year.
The National Transportation Safety Board — the body in charge of aviation accident investigations in the U.S. — released more than 3,000 pages of documents ahead its full two-day hearing about Flight 1282, including interviews with employees at Boeing and its beleaguered fuselage maker Spirit AeroSystems , some of which pointed to rework.
"I just want a word of caution here, this is not a PR campaign for Boeing," NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said.
Bolts that were meant to hold the door in place weren't attached, according to preliminary investigation results.
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Jennifer Homendy, Bryan Olin Dozier, —, Jan, weren't, Elizabeth Lund, Lund
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National Transportation Safety Board, Boeing, Alaska Airlines, National Transportation Safety, Washington D.C, Anadolu, Getty, National Transportation
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Washington, United States, U.S