The report is expected around 11 a.m., according to the NTSB.
File - A door plug area of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft awaiting inspection is pictured with paneling removed at the airline's facilities at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Jan. 10, 2024, in SeaTac, Wash.
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board are expected to release a preliminary report Tuesday on the, shortly after takeoff from Portland, Oregon. The plane was a Boeing 737 MAX 9 jetliner, and the incident put Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration under scrutiny. Criticism of both the company and its regulator goes back to deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019 of MAX 8 jets in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people, The Associated Press reported.Shares of the The Boeing Co., already down 20% this year, slipped another 2% in midday trading Monday, according to The AP.before the House Transportation Committee on Tuesday.
Over the weekend, it was announced that about 50 Boeing 737 planes would need to be reworked after a nonconformance was flagged in some fuselages by a supplier. The nonconformance was found in some 737 fuselages on Feb. 1, according to Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Stan Deal. An employee with the supplier informed their manager that two holes may not have been drilled exactly to Boeing's requirements.
Boeing said it plans to dedicate several days at its Renton factory for teams with the 737 program to complete the necessary inspections and rework on the planes. The
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