{"id":343207,"date":"2026-01-05T18:20:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/alaska-airlines-737-max-captain-sues-boeing-door-plug\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:20:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:20:59","slug":"alaska-airlines-737-max-captain-sues-boeing-over-door-plug-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=343207","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Airlines 737 MAX Captain Sues Boeing Over Door Plug Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 Captain has filed a lawsuit against Boeing over the mid-air door plug incident that occurred in January 2024. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/avbrief.com\/lawsuit-door-plug-failure-captain-alleges-boeing-tried-to-blame-him\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >report<\/a> from AvBrief, Captain Brandon Fisher is seeking $10 million in damages, alleging that Boeing attempted to attribute passenger-reported harm from the incident to the flight crew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Airlines&#8217; Captain Brandon Fisher is seeking $10 million in damages.<\/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":[396,516,398,1129,1009],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-alaska-airlines","category-boeing","category-boeing-737-max-9","category-incident"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343207","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=343207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343244,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343207\/revisions\/343244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}