The US Federal Aviation Administration announced Saturday that it is requiring “immediate inspections” of several Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes so airlines can use them again.
He also said he was investigating the Alaska Airlines flight.
On Friday, a flight connecting Portland, Oregon, and Ontario, California, made an emergency landing after losing a window mid-flight.
The Boeing 737 MAX 9 in question, which had been in service for only eight weeks, ended up landing safely with 171 passengers and six crew members on board.
There have been no immediate indications yet as to the cause of the apparent structural collapse, and no reports of injuries.
In photos posted on social media, it is possible to see a door detaching from the cabin mid-flight.
The FAA's decision falls far short of a complete, indefinite safety ban on all Max family planes nearly five years ago, but it represents a new blow to Boeing at a time when the company is trying to recover from several successive security crises in recent years.
We must remember that this model, which is Boeing's best-selling model, It was grounded for nearly two years after the plane crashes in October 2018 and March 2019, which together killed more than 340 people.
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