Alaska Airlines N704AL, a 737 Max 9, which made an emergency landing at Portland International Airport on January 5 is parked at a maintenance hanger in Portland, Oregon on January 23, 2024.

Alaska Airlines grounded all 65 of its Max 9 jets within hours after one of the two door plugs in the back half of the cabin of flight 1282 blew away while 16,000 feet (about 4,900 meters) above ...

The US National Transportation Board (NSTB) has released its final report on the January 2024 in-flight depressurisation of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 – an incident that proved tectonic ...

NTSB cites Boeing training failures and FAA oversight lapses in Alaska Airlines 737 Max door plug blowout; major safety reforms underway.

Before the FAA issued its directive, Alaska Airlines earlier said it would ground its fleet of Boeing 737 Max 9 planes. On Saturday, the carrier said 18 of the planes "had in-depth and thorough ...

Alaska’s year got off to a dramatic start as a door plug blew off the fuselage of an in-flight 737 Max 9 taking off from Portland on 5 January, leading to the voluntary grounding of its entire ...

On Jan. 5, 2024, a panel flew off a Boeing 737 MAX 9 roughly 15 minutes after taking off from Portland.

Alaska has 64 other Max 9s, and United Airlines owns 79 of them. No other U.S. airlines operate that model. The NTSB said the lost door plug was found Sunday near Portland in the back yard of a home.

The NTSB released a summary of their investigation into the Alaska Airlines door plug blowout in 2024. It cited Boeing's failure to "provide adequate training, guidance, and oversight" to its workers.

Alaska Airlines 369, a Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplane with 176 passengers and six crew on board, aborted its takeoff around 8:15 a.m. CT after it had received clearance from air traffic control, Alaska ...