Finding the door separate from the plane of the American company "Alaska Airlines" (French)
The US Federal Aviation Administration announced the discovery of the door that separated last Friday from an Alaska Airlines plane shortly after takeoff, which led to airlines and safety agencies around the world halting the takeoff of some Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft, and canceling dozens of flights after the crash.
The head of the National Transportation Safety Authority, Jennifer Humandy, said at a news conference that a person found the door of the plane in the garden of his home in Portland, Oregon, which should help in the investigation to determine the cause of the accident.
Humandi said the person "took a picture that only shows the outside of the door, the white parts, we don't see anything else, but we're going to go get it and start examining it."
The US Federal Aviation Administration on Saturday ordered 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft to be subjected to immediate checks and banned them from flying until they are completed, noting that this process requires between 4 and 8 hours per aircraft.
The FAA's guidance also includes models with a "middle-closed door," according to the document posted on its website, where these planes have an airtight door hidden with a barrier that only allows a window view, an option that the manufacturer "Boeing" proposes to customers as they wish.
The door separated from the cabin at an altitude of 5,<> meters (French)
Stop flying
United Airlines and Alaska Airlines, which have the largest fleet of 737 MAX 9 aircraft, confirmed that they had suspended their flights for inspection, and other airlines, including Turkish Airlines, suspended flights on these planes, while the European Aviation Safety Authority confirmed that it would follow US recommendations.
Shortly after the Alaska Airlines plane took off from Portland International Airport in Oregon bound for California last Friday, the door separated from the cabin during the flight of the plane, which was carrying 171 passengers and 6 crew members at an altitude of 5,20 meters, and the plane returned and landed safely about <> minutes later, causing only a few minor injuries.
A video of the crash, which showed a gap in one side of the plane as air flowed into the cabin and oxygen masks hung from the roof, and an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board began, and it is not yet clear what was wrong with the plane, in which a board used to fill the void in the emergency exit located in the middle part of planes with fewer seats was not yet clear.
International airlines grounded Boeing 737 MAX 9 (Reuters)
Frequent difficulties
The crash dealt a fresh blow to the struggling manufacturer Boeing, the latest in a series of setbacks for Boeing, after two 737 Max crashes in October 2018 and March 2019 killed 346 people.
The two crashes, linked to software within the plane's balancing system called the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), grounded all 737 Max jets for nearly two years, but Boeing faces other difficulties as well, as it has suspended several times, over the course of two years, the delivery of its long-haul 787 aircraft due to manufacturing and inspection defects.
Source: Agencies