On March 9th, Southern Metropolis Daily learned from the law firm of three passenger lawyers involved in the Boeing plane "door drop" incident that the three passengers have sued Boeing and Alaska Airlines for compensation of $1 billion. According to previous reports from Nandu, on January 5th local time, an emergency hatch of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft fell and made an emergency landing shortly after takeoff.
According to previous reports from Southern Metropolis Daily, on January 5th local time, an emergency hatch of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft fell off and made an emergency landing shortly after takeoff. Subsequently, the company discovered that multiple Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft had loose bolts. A preliminary report released by the US National Transportation Safety Commission on February 6th local time showed that four bolt holes around the dropped emergency cabin door were not damaged or deformed, indicating that these bolts were no longer on the door before the incident.
At the time of the incident, a boy sitting in a seat near the cabin door had his shirt torn by the strong wind, and his clothes were immediately sucked out of the cabin door. On March 9th, the above-mentioned law firm told Southern Metropolitan Daily reporters that three passengers sitting in the two rows behind the boy had sued Alaska Airlines and Boeing, and demanded that Boeing bear punitive damages, with a claim amount of $1 billion.
According to foreign media reports, the National Transportation Safety Board of the United States recently found that Boeing employees removed key bolts used to secure the emergency hatch in question last autumn and did not reinstall the bolts before the plane left the Boeing factory. Prior to the incident, the aircraft involved had flown approximately 150 times. The chairman of the association, Jennifer Homandy, stated that the association has repeatedly requested Boeing to provide some important documents and information in the past few months, but Boeing has not provided them.
In response, Boeing stated that during the initial investigation, the company had provided the names of Boeing employees such as hatch experts to the National Transportation Safety Commission of the United States; In response to the recent request, the company has provided a list of all personnel for the Boeing 737 hatch team. "If there is no record of the emergency hatch being dismantled, there will be no files to share."