Overview

• Boeing has announced increased quality inspections for its 737 Max aircraft following an incident where an unused door blew off an Alaska Airlines plane mid-flight, forcing an emergency landing.
• An outside party will be brought in to assess Boeing's production practices and the work of Spirit AeroSystems, the firm that supplies and installs the parts involved in the accident.
• The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has extended the grounding of 737 Max's with similar fuselage panels and will conduct an audit of the plane's production line.
• Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems will open their factories to inspectors from the airlines whose jets they are building.
• Alaska Airlines and United Airlines have found loose parts on multiple grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft, raising new concerns about the manufacturing process.