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The National Transportation Safety Board said Boeing “blatantly violated” regulations by providing investigative information to the media and speculating about causes of the Jan. 5 door plug blowout on a 737 Max 9 in Portland.
U.S. Air Force Col. Mark “Tyson” Sletten, the director of operations at Alaskan Command, and Utah flight instructor Paul Kondrat died Tuesday in a crash on Crescent Lake.
Troopers identified the occupants of the plane that crashed into Crescent Lake near Moose Pass on Tuesday as Anchorage resident Mark Sletten, 46, and Utah resident Paul Kondrat, 41.
A detail in Boeing’s alert — mention of a system on the Max’s LEAP engine that many pilots hadn’t known about — caused concern.
The tone of the hearing was set hours earlier, when the panel released a 204-page report with new allegations from a whistleblower who said he worries that defective parts could be going into 737s.
On a flight from Phoenix to Oakland, the plane went into a “Dutch roll,” a yawing motion when the tail slides and the plane rocks from wingtip to wingtip, the FAA said.
Robert Brandon Smith is accused of becoming agitated with flight attendants and passengers last Thursday, according to federal charges filed in U.S. District Court.
Officials said the Talon Air Service de Havilland Beaver crashed Monday in the Kijik Lake area.
A National Transportation Safety Board spokesman said investigators are still determining how much of a factor the lack of certification was in the crash.
The Alaska State Troopers this week said Harry Secoy and John Sliwinski died in the fiery crash of the Douglas DC-4 into the Tanana River on April 23.
Troopers were notified late Friday of the upside-down aircraft in Six Mile Lake near the community of Nondalton, located about 200 miles southwest of Anchorage.
The effort continues an initiative by the airline that was halted by the pandemic. In just one of the efforts, work on the Alaska Airlines lounge at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport starts soon.
Spirit is Boeing’s most important supplier on the 737s because it makes fuselages and installs door plugs like the one that flew off a plane operated by Alaska Airlines in January.
Boeing informed the FAA that on some 787s, the company may not have completed required inspections to confirm adequate bonding and electrical grounding where the wings join the fuselage body.
The new allegations of fraud against Boeing could ultimately connect the Alaska Airlines incident with two deadly 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019.
The crash of the Douglas DC-4 on the Tanana River in late April killed two people hauling fuel to the Northwest Alaska community of Kobuk.
Congressional scrutiny of Boeing has increased since a fuselage panel blew out of a Boeing 737 MAX on an Alaska Airlines flight. Whether that scrutiny will drive any changes in Washington, D.C., remains an open question.
The 53-year-old Florida man sitting in first class was removed from a flight to Minneapolis on Monday night and arrested Thursday in Anchorage, according to a federal complaint.
The plane was headed to Kobuk with nearly 4,500 gallons of fuel onboard when it crashed, an NTSB official said.
A witness described hearing an explosion before the Douglas DC-4 went down Tuesday morning along the Tanana River.
Seybert founded PenAir at age 18 in a Southwest Alaska village. It became the largest regional carrier in Alaska.
The stoppage was in place for about an hour Wednesday morning. Residual delays are expected throughout the delay.
The Boeing engineer alleged that almost 1,000 787s and about 400 777s currently flying are at risk of premature fatigue damage and structural failure.