{"id":249837,"date":"2025-07-11T20:55:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/faa-oversight-failures-alaska-door-incident\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T20:55:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:55:42","slug":"faas-oversight-failures-contributed-to-alaska-airlines-door-plug-mishap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=249837","title":{"rendered":"FAA&#8217;s Oversight Failures Contributed to Alaska Airlines Door Plug Mishap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Transportation Safety Board <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258162\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ntsb\/\"  >(NTSB)<\/a><\/span> has issued its final report about the Alaska Airlines mid-air door plug blowout on a Boeing 737 MAX 9, which happened in January 2024. The investigators concluded that the probable cause was Boeing\u2019s failure to provide adequate training, guidance, and oversight to ensure proper manufacturing process, including the removal of the mid-exit door (MED) plug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NTSB has once again reiterated calls for mandatory 25-hour-capable CVRs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,516,398,1129,420,421,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-alaska-airlines","category-boeing","category-boeing-737-max-9","category-faa","category-ntsb","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249838,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249837\/revisions\/249838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}