But for now, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ordered inspections of all the affected planes that have similar door plugs, and Alaska Airlines has grounded all of its flights ...

A defective door plug on an Alaska Airlines plane forced an emergency landing. The defective door plug on an Alaska Airlines plane that forced an emergency landing as a door-sized hole opened up ...

The Alaska Airlines Boeing jet involved in a near-disaster when a door plug blew out at 16,000 feet had been scheduled to undergo maintenance that night, it has emerged. The Boeing 737 MAX 9 ...

The National Transportation Safety Board says the plug covering an unused exit door that blew out minutes into an Alaska Airlines flight Friday evening has been found. The agency's head said the ...

Three passengers on the Alaska Airlines plane that had to make an emergency landing after a door plug blew off mid-flight are suing the airline and Boeing for $1 billion, claiming negligence ...

Under these conditions, the federal rules allow air carriers to disable these exits and plug the openings. That’s precisely what happened with Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 – and how “door ...

The door plug from the Alaska Airlines flight that was forced to return to to the airport in Portland, Oregon, shortly after takeoff was found in the backyard of a nearby home, the National ...

last week. Minutes after Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 departed Portland International Airport for Ontario on Friday, the plane’s left door plug, which fills in an additional emergency exit that ...

Four passengers are suing Alaska Airlines and Boeing for the "terror" they say they experienced after a door plug "blew off" during their flight, according to a complaint filed Tuesday.

Additionally, the flight crew and attendants described the atmosphere aboard last Friday's Alaska Airlines-operated Boeing 737 Max 9 flight as chaotic, "loud" and "very violent" once a door plug ...

called a door plug, was reopened between the time the plane left Boeing’s factory and the moment it flew out midair, long after Alaska Airlines had taken possession of it. Investigators ...

There was nothing on the cockpit voice recorder,” Homendy said. Alaska and United airlines have found problems with door plugs on their Boeing 737 Max 9 jets after the blowout of the same piece ...