NTSB: four bolts missing from flight 1282 door plug

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released a preliminary report into the in-flight structural failure aboard Alaska Airlines flight 1282, indicating four missing bolts from the door plug assembly were removed by Boeing during a rivet repair. The mid-exit door plug (which was lost in the rapid decompression of the 737 MAX 9) was manufactured by Spirit AeroSystems Malaysia on March 24 2023 before being received at Spirit AeroSystems Wichita on May 10. It was then installed and rigged on the fuselage before being shipped to Boeing’s Renton, Washington facility, where it arrived on August 31 2023. After being