Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems executives faced an NTSB safety hearing over the Jan. 5 midair blowout of a door panel of a nearly-new Max 9.
Boeing and its fuselage supplier Spirit AeroSystems are facing a two-day safety hearing that started Tuesday.
A Boeing safety executive said the company is working on a design change to avoid a repeat of the midair blowout.safety executive told a federal safety hearing on Tuesday that the company is working on design changes to avoid a repeat of the near catastrophic blowout of a door plug from a practically new 737 Max 9 at the start of the year.
"They are working on some design changes that will allow the door, the plug, to not be closed if there is any issue, until it is firmly secure," said Elizabeth Lund, who heads safety for Boeing's commercial airplane unit. The changes would be implemented within the year, Lund said.
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