Flight 1282: The Ghost Repair That Blew Open a 737

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On January 5, 2024, a door plug the size of a refrigerator left Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 at 16,000 feet. The airplane was three months old. The NTSB found that four bolts had been removed at Boeing's Renton factory during a rivet repair and never reinstalled, and that the work was never documented. This is the record of the rework, the 154 flights that followed, and the investigation that could not name the person who opened the panel.

Below: Direct links to the primary court filings, investigation dockets, and reporting cited in this episode.