A new 737 Max door plug design is engineered to make it more difficult for factory workers to install the door plug ...

The AS1282 incident in 2024 won't occur again with this new door plug. Here's how, and why was this change necessary?

Boeing and supplier Spirit AeroSystems have completed engineering work for a design change to 737 Max mid-cabin door plugs, part of the airframer’s efforts to prevent a repeat of the January ...

Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems — the company that made and installed the door plug — are redesigning them with another backup system to keep the panels in place even if the bolts are missing ...

The National Transportation Safety Board investigation over the past 17 months found that four bolts securing what is known ...

In this National Transportation Safety Board handout photo, plastic covers the exterior of the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, a Boeing 737 Max, on January 7, 2024 in Portland, Ore.

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 Flight 1282 was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Flight 1282 was ...

This image taken Jan. 7, 2024, and released by the National Transportation Safety Board, shows the section of a Boeing 737 Max where a door plug fell while Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was in flight.

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 Flight 1282 was ...