Alaska Airlines CEO: We found “many” loose bolts on our Max 9 planes following near-disaster — “My demand on Boeing is what are they going to do to improve their quality programs in-house.”::The CEO of Alaska Airlines said new inspections of the carrier’s Boeing 737 Max 9 planes revealed that “many” of the aircraft were found to have loose bolts.

  • brianorca
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    710 months ago

    The incident airplane was only 3 months out of the factory.

    • Waldowal
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      310 months ago

      Oh, that’s pretty damning then. Just throwing half-assed planes out the door.