🚨Breaking: Alaska Airlines Receives $160 Million Compensation from Boeing for 737 Max 9 Grounding
#BIG_News: In a significant development, #AlaskaAirlines has confirmed that #Boeing paid them $160 million in compensation during the first quarter due to the grounding of the #737Max9 #aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration (#FAA) had ordered the grounding of 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 #planes after a #doorplug blew out of an Alaska Airlines flight, narrowly avoiding a potential disaster.
#DOJ launches #criminal investigation into #Boeing #DoorPlug matter.
Boeing has been in steady decline since it bought out McDonald-Douglas in 1997. Unfortunately, the profit-driven #management culture of McD subsumed the performance-driven #engineering culture of Boeing.
What is the aviation technical term for a popping #DoorPlug on a pressurised #Boeing aircraft?
A #QualityEscape valve.
Jetzt überprüft die FAA auch klassische Boeing 737 900. #doorplug #737MAX9
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/boeing-737-max-faa-kontrollen-unfall-100.html
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When the internet is good, it’s very good.
Boeing accused of relying on 'crappy stuff' from subcontractor after 737 MAX 9 mid-air blowout | US News | Sky News
https://news.sky.com/story/boeing-accused-of-relying-on-crappy-stuff-from-subcontractor-after-737-max-9-mid-air-blowout-13045085
#Boeing
#737Max
#737Max9
#Subcontractor
#CrappyStuff
#PoorQualityParts
#DoorPlug
#AlaskaAirlines
#DoorPlugBlowOut
#BlowOut
#Spirit
#Cheap
#UnitedAirlines
#ProductIntegrity
#ProductQuality
#FederalAviationAgency
#Boeing was thrown into crisis after a panel known as a door plug became detached from flight 1282 from #Portland, #Oregon, to #Ontario International Airport in southern #California on Friday, six minutes after takeoff with the plane already 14,800 feet in the air. #DoorPlug
#AlaskaAirlines panel blowout: Boeing CEO acknowledges 'mistake'
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alaska-airlines-panel-blowout-boeing-ceo-acknowledges-mistake-rcna133198
A diagram of the #737MAX9 #DoorPlug posted by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board on Sunday shows four bolts – two in the upper corners of the plug and two lower hinge brackets – that secure the plug to the fuselage.
"The fact that #United has now found some aircraft with #LooseBolts means that the investigation is going to be expanded.”Anthony Brickhouse, an air safety expert
United finds loose bolts on several 737 MAX planes, raising pressure on #Boeing
https://www.rappler.com/business/united-airlines-finds-loose-bolts-737-max-planes-pressure-boeing/
He isn’t just Bob the teacher. He is Bob the SCIENCE teacher - teacher of astronomy and physics. Could a more perfect person have found the airplane part in his backyard? #alaskaairlines #doorplug
Why does it tickle me so unreasonably much that Bob the schoolteacher found the #alaskaairlines #doorplug.
It cracks me up that every news story says “Doorplug found in schoolteacher’s backyard.”
KOIN: "door that blew off Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 shortly after takeoff from Portland Friday night is believed to be around Barnes Road near Hwy 217 and the Cedar Hills neighborhood.Barnes Road near Hwy 217"
https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/ntsb-press-briefing-alaska-air-1282-boeing-737-max-9-pdx-01062024/
#ADBSexchange flight track over this area:
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a96375&lat=45.550&lon=-122.901&zoom=13.9&showTrace=2024-01-06×tamp=1704503511
#Alaska1282 #AS1282 #N704AL #Boeing737 #Boeing737MAX #Portland #Oregon #PDX #DoorPlug
