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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Michelle Del Rey and Maroosha Muzaffar

Loose bolts found on grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after Alaska Airlines incident

Associated Press

Both United Airlines and Alaska Airlines say they have found multiple loose parts on Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft that were grounded in the wake of an alarming incident involving a window blowing out of a plane mid-flight.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded all models of the aircraft following the emergency on an Alaska Airlines flight from Portland that saw a large part of the fuselage being ripped from the plane at 16,000ft.

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