US Safety Board Plans To Quiz Officials About FAA Oversight Of Boeing Before A Panel Blew Off A 737
August 7, 2024 8:36AM PDT
Alaska Airlines aircraft sit in the airline’s hangar at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in SeaTac, Wash. Boeing has acknowledged in a letter to Congress that it cannot find records for work done on a door panel that blew out on an Alaska Airlines flight over Oregon two months ago. Ziad Ojakli, Boeing executive vice president and chief government lobbyist, wrote to Sen. Maria Cantwell on Friday, March 8 saying, “We have looked extensively and have not found any such documentation.” (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials from Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration are facing questions about the door plug that blew off a 737 Max jetliner in midflight.
On Wednesday, the National Transportation Safety Board began the second day of a two-day hearing on the accident.
On day one of the hearing, a Boeing official said the company will redesign the part that blew off an Alaska Airlines jet in January.
She says the changes will prevent the same kind of accident.
The safety board is also scheduled to question representatives from the Federal Aviation Administration about the FAA’s oversight of Boeing, and how that has changed since the accident.
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