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A preliminary NTSB report into last month's Alaska Airlines incident says bolts that hold the door plug in place on the Boeing 737 Max 9 were missing.

FAA chief Mike Whitaker told lawmakers before a Capitol Hill hearing that he would ‘take appropriate and necessary action’ to prevent incidents similar to January's door panel blowout on a Boeing 737 Max 9 plane.

NTSB preliminary report says four bolts that hold the door plug in place on the Boeing 737 Max 9 were missing on Alaska Airlines flight 1282.

A photo indicates that bolts in a fuselage panel were removed at a Boeing factory and not replaced, the National Transportation Safety Board said.

The missing bolts are apparently not the only problem.

A report from the NTSB said the Ontario-bound Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 plane was missing bolts when its door plug blew out in midair.

NTSB found that four key bolts were missing from the door plug that blew out on a Boeing 737 Max 9 during an Alaska Airlines flight from Portland to Ontario

Investigators say the Alaska Airlines incident apparently involved a door plug that had not been properly installed when it was delivered by the manufacturer.

A month after the door plug that blew off of an Alaska Airlines plane that took off from PDX, a report has found the incident was due to a manufacturing error.

A door panel that flew off a Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet mid-flight on Jan. 5 appeared to be missing four key bolts, according to a preliminary report from the NTSB.