Bolts had been lacking on the Boeing 737 MAX in final month’s Alaska Airways accident, NTSB finds

4 bolts that safe a bit of the fuselage on sure Boeing planes had been lacking on the Alaska Airways jet that suffered a mid-air decompression throughout a flight final month, the Nationwide Transportation Security Board confirmed Tuesday.

In a preliminary report for its investigation into the accident, the NTSB confirmed that the 4 bolts, which safe a “door plug” on the fuselage of some 737 MAX 9 plane, weren’t current on the newly delivered jet.

The bolts appeared to have been eliminated by Boeing throughout the airplane’s last meeting course of, in accordance with earlier reviews, and had not been changed. The door plug is initially put in by Spirit AeroSystems, a Witchita, Kansas-based firm that builds the fuselage for some Boeing jets earlier than transport them by rail to the planemaker’s 737 meeting plant in Renton, Washington.

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The fuselage for the airplane that skilled the accident was delivered to Boeing with sure defects, the NTSB mentioned, which required Boeing to take away the door plug with a view to repair.

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