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After a door panel breaks apart in midair, Alaska Airlines grounds its Boeing 737-9 fleet.
By Kajal Sharma - 25 Jan 2024 06:18 PM
RThe Emergency Airworthiness Directive (EAD), according to the FAA's official X account, mandates that all airlines operating in the United States and its territories do a comprehensive inspection of every one of the roughly 171 affected aircraft before allowing them to resume flight.
For each jet, the necessary inspections should take four to eight hours.evised at 2:16 p.m. ET on January 6, 2024 After an Alaska Airlines plane had to make an emergency landing owing to a door panel falling loose in midair, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) declared that certain Boeing 737-9 aircraft would be grounded across the United States.
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