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Inside Alaska Flight 1282
Blown door plug inside Alaska Flight 1282
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1. Loose bolts found on some Boeing 737 Max jets

United and Alaska Airlines said Monday they found loose bolts on door plugs installed on several Boeing 737 Max 9 jets during inspections conducted after an Alaska Airlines flight had to make an emergency landing last week when a door plug blew out 10 minutes after takeoff. The National Transportation Safety Board also said the Alaska Airlines emergency, in which nobody was seriously injured, occurred after a warning light went off three times on the aircraft's recent flights. Due to the glitch, Alaska had barred the jet from carrying passengers on long flights over water. Door plugs fill doorways that aren't being used. They are held in place by 12 stop fittings that keep the door from becoming dislodged. NPR, CNBC

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.