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The Federal Aviation Administration said it is investigating whether Boeing failed to ensure its products were in proper condition for safe operations.

"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."

United and Alaska airlines say they found loose parts in door panels during the Boeing 737 Max 9 inspections; Indonesia also grounded the planes.

The door plug of a 737 Max 9 blew out during an Alaska Airlines flight, just minutes after the plane had taken off from Portland, Oregon.

Congress, along with federal investigators, are asking tough questions about exactly what went wrong that led to the mid-air incident aboard Alaska Airlines.

Executives at Boeing were hosting an all-hands safety meeting with staffers on Tuesday, just days after a harrowing inflight blowout on a 737 Max 9 jet shortly after takeoff that led to a grounding of certain Boeing aircraft.

A cabin blowout at 16,000 feet and the grounding of more than 170 Boeing jets have rekindled frustration among airlines over the planemaker's struggle to contain a series of safety and supply crises, industry officials and experts said. Alaska Airlines, which operated Friday's domestic U.S. flight, and United Airlines together have 70% of the MAX 9 fleet and have canceled hundreds of flights. Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun on Tuesday acknowledged mistakes and told staff he and many customer...

An accident like the mid-air Alaska Airlines panel blowout “can never happen again,” Boeing’s president and CEO said, acknowledging mistakes had been made.

Passengers on board an Alaska Airlines plane say that they thought "we were going to die" after a door plug flew off of the Boeing 737 Max 9 jet.

A midair blowout of an unused cabin door on an Alaska Airlines flight on Friday has exposed the ongoing subordination of flight safety to the profit interests of Boeing and the airline corporations with the complicity of the FAA and NTSB.