Summary One Boeing mechanic said that due to the way that work was organized on the factory floor, he was the only one who could work on all doors on an assembled 737. However, the mechanic was on vacation when the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 was being assembled. The door plug was opened and later closed, yet the retention bolts were not installed.
In interviews with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), a Boeing mechanic told the investigators that they were on vacation while the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9’s door plug was being repaired at the assembly line in Renton, Washington, the United States. The mechanic also told the NTSB that they were the only one who was able to work on all doors on the 737 MAX 9. Specialized on a task The interview with the unidentified Boeing mechanic was published by the NTSB on July 1, with The Seattle Times going through the material and detailing the step-by-step processes that had led to the Alaska Airlines mid-air door plug blowout in January.
Nevertheless, the mechanic, who began working at Boeing in 1988 before he was fired in 1994 and rehired in 1996, has been working on doors since 1999. “I work on all the doors. [.
..] A lot of people come to me with, hey, what do I do here, what’s going on with this, or how do I fix this, or something like that.
” The Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9, which was eventually involved in the flight AS1282 mid-air door plug blowout and was returned to Boeing, was being assembled at th.