The NTSB meets on an investigation into door plugs on a terrifying flight from Alaska Airlines

The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday will focus on the prevention of another terrifying event like that involving a panel that stole a Boeing 737 Max Midail in January 2024.

The Council will discuss what NTSB investigators have discovered in the past 17 months, including their revelation according to which the bolts securing what is known as the door mouth panel has been removed and never replaced during a repair. The members of the Board of Directors also had to approve recommendations to prevent something similar from reproducing.

The flight to the Alaska Airlines flight 1282 occurred for a few minutes after taking off from Portland, Oregon, and created a roaring air vacuum cleaner which sucked objects from the cabin and dispersed them on the ground below with fuselage debris. Seven passengers and an assisted flight suffered minor injuries, but no one was killed. The pilots were able to get the plane safely at the airport.

The accident occurred when the aircraft flew at 16,000 feet (4,800 meters). The oxygen masks dropped during rapid decompression and some mobile phones and other objects were swept in the hole in the plane while 171 passengers supported by the wind and the roaring noise.

The first six minutes of the flight At Southern Ontario International Airport, California was routine. The Boeing 737 Max 9 was almost halfway through its cruise altitude and traveling at more than 400 MPH (640 km / h) when the passengers described a strong “boom” and a strong wind that it torn someone’s shirt.

“We knew something was wrong,” Kelly Bartlett told the Associated Press in the days that followed the flight. “We didn’t know what. We did not know how much we did not know if it meant that we were going to crush ourselves. “

The piece of fuselage of 2 feet per 4 feet (61 centimeter per 122 centimeter) (61 centimeter) covering a non -operational emergency exit Behind the left wing had exploded. Only seven seats on the flight were unoccupied, including the two seats closest to the opening.

The panel that exploded was made and installed by a supplier, Spirit Aerosystems. It was removed in a Boeing factory so that workers can repair damaged rivets, but the bolts that help secure the door cap have not been replaced. It is not clear that deleted the panel.

The NTSB said in a preliminary report That four bolts were not replaced after repair work in a Boeing factory, but the company said that the work had not been documented.

Boeing factory workers told NTSB investigators that they I felt forced to work too fast And were invited to carry out work for which they were not qualified, in particular by opening and closing the taking of door on the particular plane involved.

A Boeing Door installer said that we had never said to take shortcuts, but everyone faced a pressure to maintain the mounting chain in motion.

“This is how mistakes are made. People try to work too fast,” he told investigators. The installer and the other workers were not appointed in documents on the probe.

THE Maximum version of Boeing’s Bestselling 737 The plane was the source of Persistent disorders For the company since two of the jets crashed, one in Indonesia in 2018 and another in Ethiopia in 2019, killing 346 people combined.

Investigators determined that these accidents were caused by a system that was based on a sensor providing defective readings to push the nose down, leaving the pilots unable to regain control. After the second crash, the Max jets were anchored in the world until the company redrawn the system.

Last month, the Ministry of Justice concluded an agreement allowing Boeing to Avoid criminal proceedings For having allegedly deceived American regulators on the maximum before the two plantations.

But Federal Aviation Administration regulators have crowned the maximum production of Boeing 737 to 38 jets per month while investigators ensure that the company has strengthened its security practices.

Boeing hired a new CEO, Kelly Ortberg last year and created a new position for a vice-president of the main quality in order to improve its manufacture.

The company was back in news earlier this month when a 787 steering wheel by Air India crashed shortly after takeoff and killed At least 270 people. The investigators did not determine what has caused this crash, but so far, they have not found any defects with the model, which has a solid security file.

Oxygen masks have dropped and phones have become theft meat bolts focus on Boeing manufacturing problems with the Boeing 737 Max