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Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation

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165 points starkparker | 1 comments | 10 Jul 25 20:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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supportengineer ◴[10 Jul 25 21:43 UTC] No.44525949[source]▶
The accident happened because a piece on the airplane wasn’t put back on the right way. The company that made the plane didn’t teach the workers well enough or check their work carefully. Also, the people in charge of making sure planes are safe didn’t do a good job checking on things.
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heywoods ◴[10 Jul 25 22:05 UTC] No.44526174[source]▶
What Boeing plant was the aircraft assembled at where this failure occurred?
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1. kayfox ◴[10 Jul 25 23:05 UTC] No.44526701[source]▶
As with all but the first few 737s, it was assembled at Renton. The door plug was installed in Wichita by Spirit Aerosystems and there were issues with rivets in the surrounding structure that Spirit removed the plug to correct in Renton.

As a result of this Boeing is now refusing to sign off on fuselages with defects found at Spirit to be transported to Renton. And also Boeing will be buying back Spirit, which had been spun out of Boeing by the McDonall-Douglass management that took over Boeing when McDonall-Douglass bought Boeing with Boeings own money.