United Airlines resuming 737 MAX 9 flights following inspections
The aircraft is back in service after an accident during an Alaska Airlines flight earlier this month.
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The aircraft is back in service after an accident during an Alaska Airlines flight earlier this month.
Boeing 737 Max 9 planes are flying again for the first time in three weeks. They were grounded after a scary incident in which a door plug ripped off in mid-flight. CBS News Senior Transportation Correspondent Kris Van Cleave explains what you need to know before you fly.
Some Alaska Airlines' Boeing 737 Max 9 jets will return to service after a door panel on an Alaska jet blew out in mid-flight three weeks ago. CBS Correspondent Kris Van Cleave reports.
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun was on Capitol Hill Wednesday trying to reassure key senators that the company's planes are safe, after an incident earlier this month in which the door panel of a 737 Max 9 blew off during an Alaska Airlines flight over Portland, Oregon.
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"At the very least, installers missed something," former NTSB member John Goglia said after the door plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 jet. "It calls into question the process."
With the Max 9 grounded, Alaska has canceled more than 1000 flights including during the upcoming holiday weekend, and 807 more so far at United. Investigators are focusing on bolts holding that door panel in place - bolts so far they cannot find.
CBS 2’s Darius Johnson has alarming new information on what happened on that same plane in the days leading up to the blowout.
It happened Friday night. A door plug on an Alaska Airlines plane blew out mid-flight. CBS 2's Kris Van Cleve has more on what they've found and what's next.
The NTSB described a chaotic scene in the Boeing 737 Max 9's cockpit after the blowout, which forced the plane to return to Portland, Oregon minutes after takeoff.
After a door plug flew off an Alaska Airlines flight just 10 minutes after takeoff, all Boeing 737 Max 9s are grounded until they can be inspected.
After a door plug flew off an Alaska Airlines flight just 10 minutes after takeoff, all Boeing 737 Max 9s are grounded until they can be inspected.
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said that "we are very, very fortunate" no one happened to be seated in the two adjoining seats to the blown-out door.
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Boeing must report to a Texas courtroom for arraignment on federal criminal charges in two deadly crashes involving the 737 Max Airliner.
Boeing must report to a Texas courtroom for arraignment on federal criminal charges in two deadly crashes involving the 737 Max Airliner.
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