{"id":299353,"date":"2025-10-11T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-alaska-airlines-recieved-boeing-737-max-9-replacement-door-plug-blowout\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T00:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:00:16","slug":"why-alaska-airlines-still-hasnt-received-a-new-boeing-737-max-after-its-door-plug-blew-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=299353","title":{"rendered":"Why Alaska Airlines Still Hasn\u2019t Received A New Boeing 737 MAX After Its Door Plug Blew Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle-based <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254956\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/alaska-airlines\/\"  >Alaska Airlines<\/a><\/span> and Boeing <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/alaska-airlines-boeing-737-without-emergency-exit\/\" >made headlines last January<\/a> when a Boeing 737 MAX 9 took off from Portland, and its door plug blew out during ascent. The aircraft involved, registration <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/faa-oversight-failures-alaska-door-incident\/\" >N704AL<\/a>, has since been returned to Boeing by Alaska Airlines, with Boeing now the formal owner. Instead, Alaska Airlines expects to replace it with the Boeing 737 MAX 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aftermath of a blown-out door plug reveals startling safety lapses.<\/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":[396,476,516,718,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-alaska-airlines","category-boeing-737-max","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299353","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=299353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299354,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299353\/revisions\/299354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}