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The US Federal Aviation Administration announced that it had found the door that separated last Friday from an Alaska Airlines plane shortly after take-off, which led to… Shut down airlines Safety agencies around the world took off some Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft, and dozens of flights were canceled after the accident.
The head of the National Transportation Safety Board, Jennifer Homendy, indicated in a press conference that a person found the door of the plane in the garden of his home in Portland, Oregon, which is supposed to help in investigations to determine the causes of the accident.
Homendy said that the person “took a picture that shows only the outside of the door, that is, the white parts. We do not see anything else, but we will go get it and start examining it.”
On Saturday, the US Federal Aviation Administration ordered 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft to be subjected to immediate inspections and prevented them from flying until this was completed, noting that this process requires between 4 and 8 hours for each aircraft.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s directives also include “obstructed middle door” models, according to the document published on its website, as these aircraft contain a tightly closed door hidden by a barrier that only allows a window to be seen, which is an option that Boeing, the manufacturer, suggests to customers according to their desire.
Stop flying
The American companies United Airlines and Alaska Airlines, which have the largest fleet of 737 MAX 9 aircraft, confirmed that they had stopped flying their planes for examination, and other airlines, including Turkish Airlines, suspended operating their flights on these planes, while the Aviation Safety Authority confirmed. European Union, it will follow American recommendations.
Shortly after the Alaska Airlines plane took off from Portland International Airport in Oregon, heading to the state California Last Friday, the door separated from the cabin during the flight of the plane, which was carrying 171 passengers and 6 crew members, at an altitude of 5,000 meters. The plane returned and landed safely after about 20 minutes, and the accident caused only a small number of minor injuries.
The video recording of the incident was spread around the world, which showed a gap in one side of the plane while air flowed into the cabin and oxygen masks hung from the ceiling. An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board began, and the nature of the defect that occurred in the plane in which a panel used to fill the void in the emergency exit was torn off. In the middle section of aircraft with fewer seats.
Frequent difficulties
This accident dealt a new blow to the manufacturer, Boeing, which has been plagued by repeated difficulties, as it constitutes the latest episode in a series of setbacks that Boeing suffered, after two crashes of two “737 MAX” aircraft in October 2018 and March 2019, causing the deaths of 346 people.
The two incidents, linked to software within the plane’s stabilization system called the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), grounded all 737 MAX aircraft for nearly two years, but Boeing is facing other difficulties as well, as it has suspended deliveries of its designated aircraft several times over the course of two years. The 787 model was removed from long-haul flights due to manufacturing and inspection defects.
