Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun has pledged that the company will learn from the recent incident involving an Alaska Airlines flight. The aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing after a part of the plane's main body detached mid-flight. Calhoun made this promise during a town hall meeting with the contractors responsible for building the fuselage of the 737 MAX 9. Meanwhile, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is still investigating whether bolts were installed on the door plug that blew out.
The NTSB Chair, Jennifer Homendy, confirmed that their on-scene work in Portland has been completed. The door plug and its components have been moved back to Washington, D.C. However, there is still much work to be done to determine the cause of the incident. Homendy will be briefing House lawmakers and senators in closed-door sessions to discuss the investigation.
