The 171 passengers onboard the Alaska Airlines flight in January that suffered a sudden mid-air decompression when a fuselage panel unexpectedly blew out, may have been the victims of a crime.
Boeing has ousted the leader of the 737 Max programme at its Renton plant and reshuffled its leadership team at the Commercial Airplanes division, effective immediately, reported tca/dpa.
The panel or door plug manufactured by Spirit AeroSystems Malaysia and which blew out mid-flight of a Boeing 737 MAX 9 Alaska Airlines plane last month cleared manufacturing processes, a preliminary investigation by a US body has found.
Boeing mechanics, and not supplier Spirit AeroSystems, had reinstalled the door plug that blew off an Alaska Airlines flight “improperly”, various Alaskan media have reported, citing an anonymous insider who revealed the matter on an aviation blog.
