New details revealed of Boeing door plug incident aboard Alaska Airlines flight

ABC News' Trevor Ault reports on new details from the flight crew and the severe production issues inside the Boeing 737 plant leading up to the incident.

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[MVader]

Hopefully that employee is now in federal protection 👀

[sethirwin]

😡Very convenient that the manufacturer is out on medical leave and can’t be interviewed!!😡😡😡

[dontbanmebrodontbanme]

The manufacturing manager is on medical leave? For 7 months??? Yeah, something tells me they're never going to get to talk to him! 😂😂😂

[kevinp]

The guy installing that door plug finally got his answer as to why he was left with extra bolts after he finished installing it.

[YJI]

So what's the new details?? Watched a 2:30 long video and GMA is just regurgitating the same info we all new months ago.

[jmcclain]

Duct tape apparently doesn't fix everything.

[mkb]

I refuse to fly again. This is has gotten ridiculous.

[emjay]

Way to go “deregulators”.
More to come from this deregulation crusade in all forms of public health practices.

[rondent]

If it's Boeing it ain't going.

[krisdacripe]

Does a design change mean that it will result in actual production changes ?

[louniece]

I hope Boeing has stopped knocking off whistleblowers.😬

[trevorrobinson]

This is a great promotional for Amtrak

[GamerplayerWT]

“…exit door blowout…” That’s what I call it a few hours after I eat hot chilli.

[Thisandthat]

the manufacturer is in Malaysia or something. It's the manager of the crew that signed off that it had been properly re-installed.

[Blackwaterwillow]

So. Did the door have bolts INSTALLED and the door blew out or were there no bolts installed at all? Thats my number one question.

[Bmartacus]

Ohhhh, I thought DEI was the problem. Now it’s not that?

[JS-yjow]

So, why is the graphic showing the flight path so off what the actual path was? If your going through the trouble to do a report, at least make the effort to get everything correct.

[leonardmayer]

Boeing used to have a great reputation for high quality aircraft. With accidents serving as evidence of shoddy workmanship, the workers and the chief executives should be ashamed of their product. It used to be that a worker would be proud of producing a high quality safe product. The CEO now is more concerned with how much money he can get without producing the high quality safe product and great service he should be concerned with.

[re]

The door was removed and then put back on. Alaska airlines can not find any paper work on the work done?

[TheRealdal]

Boeing reputation and quality decreased when they decided to move and split the company and move HQ out of Seattle where the manufacturing occurs. They should move HQ back to Seattle and quit worrying about lobbying and work on making sure they are turning out a quality safe product. Go back to Seattle- pay attention!