Boeing to add quality inspections to 737 MAX door plugs after Alaska jet disaster: ‘Complete confidence'

Boeing will add further quality inspections for the 737 MAX after a mid-air blowout of a cabin panel in an Alaska Airlines MAX 9 earlier this month, the head of its commercial airplanes division said on Monday.The planemaker will also deploy a team to supplier Spirit AeroSystems — which makes and installs the plug door involved in the incident — to check and approve Spirit’s work on the plugs before fuselages are sent to Boeing’s production facilities in Washington state, Stan Deal, president of Boeing Com ...