{"id":126705,"date":"2024-02-07T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=126705"},"modified":"2024-02-07T19:28:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T00:28:52","slug":"seattle-times-key-bolts-missing-when-boeing-delivered-alaska-blowout-jet-ntsb-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=126705","title":{"rendered":"(Seattle Times) Key bolts missing when Boeing delivered Alaska blowout jet, NTSB report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NTSB said the door plug was opened at Boeing\u2019s Renton factory so a team from supplier Spirit AeroSystems of Wichita, Kan., could repair damaged rivets adjacent to the door plug on the 737 MAX 9 jet.<\/p>\n<p>The fix required removal of insulation and interior panels at that location and the opening of the door plug. After the rivets were repaired, a Boeing team worked to restore the interior.<\/p>\n<p>Federal regulations require that every manufacturing job that goes into assembly of an airplane be documented. And critical tasks have to be signed off by quality inspectors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A month after the blowout, though, Boeing has not provided the NTSB with documentation about who opened and re-closed the door plug, how exactly it was done and with what authorization<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/boeing-aerospace\/ntsb-report-on-alaska-flight-1282-says-key-bolts-missing-when-boeing-delivered-jet\/\">Read it all<\/a> (my emphasis).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Boeing 737 MAX 9 was missing key bolts when it was delivered to Alaska Airlines, the National Transportation Safety Board says in a preliminary report on Flight 1282&#39;s blowout over Portland. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1ygq2zDdmg\">https:\/\/t.co\/1ygq2zDdmg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Seattle Times (@seattletimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seattletimes\/status\/1755234594528313476?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NTSB said the door plug was opened at Boeing\u2019s Renton factory so a team from supplier Spirit AeroSystems of Wichita, Kan., could repair damaged rivets adjacent to the door plug on the 737 MAX 9 jet. The fix required<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=126705\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[589,168,597,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126707,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126705\/revisions\/126707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}