Co-pilot had headset torn off by force of panel blowout as investigators hold hearing on January accidentThe mid-flight blowout of a panel from a Boeing 737 Max jet was so powerful that it blew open the plane’s cockpit door and tore off the co-pilot’s headset, and federal investigators began questioning officials from Boeing and its key supplier on Tuesday to understand how the accident occurred.“It was chaos,” the co-pilot of that Alaska Airlines flight on the 5 January said in documents released by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Continue reading…
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Publish date : 2024-08-06 18:38:46
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Alaska pilot describes ‘chaos’ as Boeing officials quizzed on mid-flight blowout
