The National Transportation Safety Board found Boeing and the FAA responsible for "multiple system failures," leading to Alaska Airlines' door blowing off mid-flight last year near Portland, Oregon.

Multiple rounds of questions from NTSB members at the hearing focused on processes at both Boeing and the FAA, and changes needed to these processes as well as training moving forward.

An Alaska Airlines 737 Max lost a fuselage piece mid-flight, prompting an NTSB investigation. The NTSB attributes the incident to failures in Boeing's training, guidance, and FAA oversight ...

Boeing will be back in the hot seat Tuesday as the National Transportation Safety Board holds a hearing to present its findings from an investigation into the terrifying incident in which a door ...

In its final report, the NTSB criticized the FAA for its inadequate oversight of Boeing and supplier Spirit Aerosystems leading up to the January 2024 blowout.

NTSB investigators have recovered the door plug from the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 MAX, flight 1282 that was found in the backyard of a home in Portland, Oregon.

By Chris Isidore and Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington, D.C. (CNN) — The blame for a horrifying mid-flight blowout of a door plug on an Alaska Airlines flight last year is shared by plane ...

The FAA said Tuesday it has “fundamentally changed how it oversees Boeing since the Alaska Airlines door-plug accident and we will continue this aggressive oversight to ensure Boeing fixes its ...

NTSB/Getty Images via CNN Newsource Members of the NTSB examine the hole in the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max flight in which a door plug blew out in January 2024.

Senior Air Transport & Safety Editor Sean Broderick covers aviation safety, MRO, and the airline business from Aviation Week Network's Washington, D.C. office. NTSB Targets Boeing Processes, FAA ...

The NTSB determined that "multiple system failures," including poor practices at Boeing and poor oversight by the FAA, caused the Alaska Airlines flight door plug blowout in January 2024.

According to NTSB chair Jennifery Homendy and the agency's report, the immediate cause of the incident were failures of Boeing's training and guidance procedures, and the FAA's oversight of them.