Investigating authority criticizes Boeing's stalling tactics. Boeing simply said that if the work “had not been documented, there would be no documents that could be shared” A spokesman, citing the ongoing NTSB investigation, left unanswered the question of whether Boeing now has records of the work steps or not.
The near-miss had increased pressure on Boeing to provide better quality oversight in production. In the incident with a virtually new Boeing 737 Max 9 from the US airline Alaska Airlines, a fuselage fragment broke off at row 26.