{"id":6448,"date":"2024-03-11T10:52:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T10:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/2024\/03\/11\/alaska-airlines-cooperates-with-doj-in-boeing-737-maxblowout-probe\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T10:52:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T10:52:13","slug":"alaska-airlines-cooperates-with-doj-in-boeing-737-maxblowout-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/2024\/03\/11\/alaska-airlines-cooperates-with-doj-in-boeing-737-maxblowout-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Airlines cooperates with DOJ in Boeing 737 MAX\nblowout probe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\u00a9 Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX, which was forced to make an emergency landing with a gap in the fuselage, is seen during its investigation by the NTSB in Portland, Oregon, U.S. January 7, 2024. NTSB\/Han<\/span>
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(Reuters) -Alaska Airlines said on Saturday it is cooperating with the U.S. Department of Justice after a criminal investigation was opened into the Boeing (NYSE:) 737 MAX blowout on its flight in January. <\/p>\n

“In an event like this, it’s normal for the DOJ to be conducting an investigation. We are fully cooperating and do not believe we are a target of the investigation,” Alaska Airlines said in an emailed statement to Reuters. <\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal earlier reported, citing documents and people familiar with the matter, that the investigators have contacted some passengers and crew on the Jan. 5 flight, which made an emergency landing in Portland, Oregon, after a fuselage panel ripped off midair. <\/p>\n

The investigation would inform the DOJ’s review of whether Boeing complied with an earlier settlement that resolved a federal investigation following two fatal 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019, the report added. <\/p>\n

Boeing and DOJ did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comments. <\/p>\n

The door plug panel blew off an Alaska Airlines-operated flight not long after taking off from a Portland, Oregon, airport on Jan. 5, forcing pilots to scramble to land the plane safely. <\/p>\n

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) subsequently ordered the temporary grounding of 171 narrowbody MAX 9 jets with a similar configuration.<\/p>\n

Days after the incident, Alaska Airlines on Jan. 26 resumed MAX 9 service after it said it had completed inspections on the first group of its Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircrafts.<\/p>\n

In February, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said the door panel that flew off appeared to be missing four key bolts. The plug was manufactured by Spirit AeroSystems (NYSE:) , the onetime subsidiary of Boeing that separated from its parent in 2005. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a9 Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX, which was forced to make an emergency landing with a gap in the fuselage, is seen during its investigation by the NTSB in Portland, Oregon, U.S. January 7, 2024. NTSB\/Han (Reuters) -Alaska Airlines said on Saturday it is cooperating…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersontrend.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}