Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems executives faced an NTSB safety hearing over the Jan. 5 midair blowout of a door panel of a nearly-new Max 9.
Boeing and its fuselage supplier Spirit AeroSystems are facing a two-day safety hearing that started Tuesday.
A Boeing safety executive said the company is working on a design change to avoid a repeat of the midair blowout.Jennifer Homendy, Chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, speaks during investigative hearing, into the blowout of a left mid exit door plug on a Boeing 737-9 MAX during Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 flight on January 5, 2024, at the National Transportation Safety Board headquarters in Washington D.C. United States on August 6, 2024.
"I just want a word of caution here, this is not a PR campaign for Boeing," NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said. "This is an investigation on what happened on Jan. 5. Understand?"and a series of manufacturing flaws that required changes at the company's factories, including what led up to the door plug getting removed, but not secured last year.
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