Boeing has confidence no other plane besides Alaska airlines jet was delivered with missing bolts, says Senior VP

The Boeing has confidence that no other plane besides Alaska airlines jet was delivered with missing bolts, said Elizabeth Lund, Boeing's senior vice president quality, on Thursday.

The VP said that Boeing has scheduled a full briefing with European regulator EASA to discuss steps it is taking to improve production.

Since January 5, 2024, Boeing has been under pressure over factory controls when a door plug tore off an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 jet.

Meanwhile, the National Transportation Safety Board said it was sanctioning Boeing for disclosing non-public details of the ongoing investigation into a 737 MAX mid-air emergency and referring its conduct to the Justice Department.

The NTBS further said Boeing has “blatantly violated” the protocols, and the agency would no longer share access to its insight during the investigation.

Earlier this week, the leading aerospace company disclosed that the four plugs needed to hold the door were possibly not installed before the flight departed the factory in October due to lack of paperwork, reported CNN.

The report stressed the Alaska Air door plug incident happened because two different groups of employees were enlisted to finish the work at the plant. While one was responsible for removing the door plug, the other had to reinstall it.

The first step of the procedure was completed with the first group removing the door plug. However, they failed to generate the paperwork suggesting they had done their part of the job in removing the door plug and four bolts needed to hold it in place.

It is important to note that the Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 jet flew for about two months without the four bolts surrounding the door plug. On January 5, the door plug blew out after the plane took off from Portland, Oregon, exposing the passengers to a fatal experience; several items were ripped away into the night sky.