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The National Transportation Safety Board has released a preliminary report about the Alaska Airlines incident that has roiled Boeing

Spirit Aerosystems personnel removed the bolts to replace the damaged rivets but didn't put them back

Three Boeing 737 Max 9 planes hit the air again on Friday after three weeks of being grounded.This comes after a door plug blew out of an Alaska Airlines fligh

In the same area as the plug door that blew out of that plane. tom costello joins us. is this a sign of a larger problem here? >> could be. thats exactly what the ntsb is looking at. the point is that these were preliminary inspections. alaska airlines did it and united airlines did it. this is not even yet the formal faa required inspection of the door plugs you mentioned. this is just a cursory look. both airlines say they have seen loose parts around that door plug on other planes, on other m...

Has been inspecting the jets after part of an alaska airlines planes fuselage fell off in mid—air on friday. the faa said its first priority was "keeping the flying public safe". the grounding of the jets has had an immediate impact on travellers. alaska airlines cancelled a further 170 flights on sunday, on top of the 160 flights it cancelled on saturday. the airline said approximately a8,000 passengers have been affected already. and united airlines says it cancelled 180 flights on sunday, a...

Airlines planes fuselage fell off in mid—air on friday. the faa said its first priority was "keeping the flying public safe". the grounding of the jets has had an immediate impact on travellers. alaska airlines cancelled a further 170 flights on sunday on top of the 160 flights it cancelled on saturday. the airline said approximately a8,000 passengers have been affected already. and united airlines says it cancelled 180 flights on sunday after already cancelling 90 on saturday. both airlines t...

You probably won't ask for an exit row seat again after this

Planes after that flights plane lost a chunk of its cell mid air forcing an emergency landing in portland. a plug door blew off the plane while it was 16,000 feet in the sky. >> alaska, we just depressurized. >> reporter: the 171 passengers and six crew members on board the aircraft friday evening were headed to ontario, california. videos taken from inside the plane show passengers appearing calm. >> i heard a big bang. i looked to my left and theres a huge chunk, a part of the airplane missing...

This is not unusual from that standpoint. i guess alaska decided, because they have enough exits for an emergency evacuation situation, they didnt necessarily have to utilize this door, so they utilized it for seating. >> thank you so much. of course, we are all glad that all passengers and all crew are okay. pretty shaken up probably, but okay. still to come, the gop presidential candidates campaigning in iowa today in a final push to voters ahead of the iowa caucuses. our team is there.

Captain les aban. whats your reaction to hear that a piece of 737 would simply fall off, get sucked away and frighten a lot of people? >> im flabbergasted. its hard for me to imagine, regardless of the fact that alaska does or does not utilize that particular section as an emergency exit. that was a service door. pete did a great job of describing what that was all about. at the end of the day, its a plug-type door, is what we call it. its like a bank vault. that door, if it was used as an emerg...