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...Boeing is struggling to address quality concerns after a door panel blew off one of its 737 Max planes on an Alaska Airlines flight in early January....
...Downing Street has been accused of blocking the former parole board chair, who resigned over thwarted plans to release a serial sex offender, from becoming the parliamentary ombudsman....
...The Boeing 737 Max 9 jet that lost a door panel during an Alaska Airlines flight last month was found to be missing bolts, a US regulator has found....
...The Alaska Airlines blowout happened two days before the three-year probationary period expired....
...A preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board found that the 737 Max 9 involved in the Alaska Airlines accident was missing four bolts meant to fasten the door panel to the fuselage....
...Alaska Airlines placed a restriction on the plane preventing it from making long over-sea journeys, such as flying to Hawaii....
...The National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the incident, located the door from the Alaska Airlines flight on Monday in a Portland, Oregon, suburb....
...The mid-air breach of the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines Boeing aircraft has put the spotlight on Spirit AeroSystems, one of the plane maker’s biggest suppliers....
...All of those on board landed back safely at Portland, Oregon....
...But the Alaska Airlines door panel blew off shortly before the agreement was set to expire....
...It took the Alaska Airlines incident for the board to rethink that approach, the document reveals....
...The Alaska Airlines flight was carrying 171 passengers and six crew on Friday when a section of the fuselage was torn away. All of those on board landed safely at Portland, Oregon....
...While the Alaska Airlines accident “shows that Boeing has much work yet to do, the board believes that Mr Calhoun has responded to this event in the right way by taking responsibility for the accident”,...
...“Safety will continue to drive our decision-making as we assist the [National Transportation Safety Board’s] investigation into Alaska Airlines Flight 1282.”...
...Boeing is replacing the executive in charge of manufacturing its 737 Max aircraft, weeks after a door panel blew out of one of the planes on an Alaska Airlines flight....
...A third possible contender is Patrick Shanahan, head of Boeing’s supplier Spirit AeroSystems, which supplied the door plug that blew out during the Alaska Airlines flight in January....
...The regulator launched an investigation of Boeing and Spirit following the mid-air blowout of a door panel on an Alaska Airlines flight in January....
...A preliminary probe by the National Transportation Safety Board found four bolts were missing from the door opening when the Alaska Airlines plane left a Boeing factory last year....
...Alaska Airlines was down more than 4 per cent....
...The latest blow to its authority came last Friday when part of the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 jet blew out at 16,000 feet, inducing a sudden decompression....
...Five US carriers have raised bag fees by $5 in the past two months, starting with Alaska Airlines and JetBlue Airways in January and February, then American Airlines, United Airlines and Delta in a two-week...
...A preliminary report into the Alaska incident by the National Transportation Safety Board is also expected to be published this week....
...But Boeing had yet to provide the list, she said, two months after a dangerous incident on an Alaska Airlines flight....
...Board chair Larry Kellner will leave in May....
...Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Monday said they had not yet recovered the four locking bolts that should have been on the door plug nor yet “determined if they existed...
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