Boeing hoped 2024 would be the year it would significantly increase production of its popular Max jets.
Since then, details have emerged about the jet’s production at Boeing’s facility in Renton, Wash., that have intensified scrutiny of the company’s quality control.
Boeing workers opened and then reinstalled the panel about a month before the plane was delivered to Alaska Airlines.
The directive is another setback for Boeing, which had been planning to increase production of its Max plane series to more than 500 this year, from about 400 last year.
It also planned to add another assembly line at a factory in Everett, Wash., a major Boeing production hub north of Seattle.
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Boeing, Federal Aviation Administration, Max, Alaska Airlines, Portland International
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Oregon, Renton, Wash, Everett, Seattle