>Investigators say they still don't know who reinstalled the door plug panel at Boeing's factory without replacing four key bolts that were supposed to hold it in place. Even one of those four bolts could have prevented the door plug blowout during Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, NTSB investigators said on Tuesday. Those bolts were never found, and investigators believe they were likely discarded.

>There were two dozen workers on the door team at the Boeing factory near Seattle that builds the 737 Max, according to investigators. But only one of them had previous experience removing a door plug panel — and he was on vacation in September 2023 when the door plug panel was removed and reinstalled.

I'm lost for words. You might expect this sort of build quality from the worst british cars in the 80's. This is boeing in 2023. Not surprisingly the door plug was originally removed in order to repair some shoddy work done by Spirit Aerosystems.

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