Boeing 737 MAX groundings
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The Boeing 737 MAX passenger airliner was grounded worldwide between March 2019 and December 2020 after 346 people died in two similar crashes in less than five months, and briefly in January 2024 fol
A parking lot at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, filled with undelivered Boeing 737 MAX aircraft during the grounding following two fatal crashes
Five Shenzhen Airlines 737 MAX 8s (foreground, red livery) grounded at the Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport, March 2019.
Vertical airspeeds of both flights, showing altitude loss in 20-second intervals.
PK-LQP, the aircraft involved in the crash of Flight 610
Alaska Airlines Flight 1282
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Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Alaska Airlines from Portland International Airport in Portland, Oregon, to Ontario International Airport in Ontario,
Boeing 737 MAX groundings
…orders. The MAX resumed commercial flights in the U.S. in December 2020, and was recertified in Europe and Canada by January 2021. On January 5, 2024, Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 suffered a mid-flight blowout of a plug filling an unused emergency exit, causing rapid decompression of the aircraft. The FAA grounded some 171 Boeing…
The aircraft with plastic sheeting covering the missing door plug
N704AL, the aircraft involved in the accident, photographed in 2023
Door installed
Opening plugged