Door plugs seal up unused emergency exits and are only visible outside of the plane. From the inside, the door plug on flight 1282 looked like any other part of the cabin wall — until it ...

The door plug for the fuselage ... and general havoc was a prelude to the plane's destruction and their own likely death," the complaint stated. "This is the end," one plaintiff thought, according ...

The bolts are there to prevent the non-operational panel, known as a door plug, from moving upward, the NTSB said. But last year, before the plane was delivered to Alaska Airlines, the door panel ...

The preliminary report described the precarious moments after the door plug blew off. The captain reported hearing "a loud bang" when the plane reached an altitude of about 16,000 feet.

days after a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines plane while it was in-flight. "Since we began preliminary inspections on Saturday, we have found instances that appear to relate to installation ...

Passengers captured footage showing a hole where the door plug came loose. No one was seriously injured and the plane made an emergency landing safely. The incident remains under investigation by ...

In the wake of the incident, 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft, which had the same mid-cabin door plug, as the plane involved in the Alaska Airlines incident, were grounded, and Boeing has been under ...

The agency issued a safety alert recommending that airlines inspect door plugs on a Boeing 737 plane that has the same design for the panels as the 737 Max 9. By Mark Walker Reporting from ...