The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released the preliminary report on a plane crash that killed an Upstate couple near the North Carolina and S ...

The NTSB has found that systemic failures, including missing bolts securing the door plug, led to the door plug blowout on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in January 2024.

Boeing failed to provide adequate training, guidance and oversight to prevent a mid-air cabin panel blowout of a new 737 MAX 9 flight in January 2024 that spun the planemaker into a major crisis ...

The NTSB says the cause of last year's door plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight was Boeing's failure to "provide adequate training, guidance and oversight" to its factory workers.

NTSB-Boeing FILE - This image taken Jan. 7, 2024, and released by the National Transportation Safety Board, shows the section of a a Boeing 737 Max where a door plug fell while Alaska Airlines ...

The NTSB investigation over the past 17 months found that four bolts securing what is known as the door plug panel were removed and never replaced during a repair as the Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft ...