( ) -q-20- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “of the Max.” Investigators say bolts that helped secure a panel on the Boeing jetliner were missing before the panel blew off the plane in midflight last month. [CutID: <Cuts> NTSB-BOEING-house-q-WEDam.mp3 Time: 20s Title: NTSB-BOEING-house-q-WEDam Out-cue: of the Max] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Both airlines have been […]
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NTSB: Bolts on Boeing jetliner were missing before mid-flight panel blowout
( ) -q-20- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “of the Max.”
Investigators say bolts that helped secure a panel on the Boeing jetliner were missing before the panel blew off the plane in midflight last month.
[CutID: <Cuts> NTSB-BOEING-house-q-WEDam.mp3
Time: 20s
Title: NTSB-BOEING-house-q-WEDam
Out-cue: of the Max]
TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Both airlines have been returning their planes to service since the Federal Aviation Administration approved guidelines for inspections of the part that blew out, called a door plug.
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VERBATIM: The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a preliminary report into the January 5 accident. The loss of the panel forced pilots of the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 jet to make a harrowing emergency landing. Alaska and United Airlines are the only U.S. carriers using that particular model of the Max.