The emergency hatch of a Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft in the United States fell during flight, and subsequently, multiple Boeing aircraft were exposed to have quality issues, leading to ongoing controversies. According to a reporter from Boeing, on January 16th local time, Boeing appointed a retired US Navy admiral as an independent consultant to review the quality management system of the company's commercial aircraft. However, the day after the statement was issued, the Boeing 737 plane taken by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken suffered a "serious failure".
According to previous reports from Southern Metropolis Daily, on the 5th local time, an emergency hatch of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft fell during flight and the plane made an emergency landing shortly after. The next day, the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States ordered a temporary suspension of Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft operated by American airlines or within the United States for safety inspections. Several regulatory agencies and airlines around the world have also announced the grounding of this type of aircraft.
After the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States issued a grounding order, some airlines immediately conducted safety inspections on the Boeing aircraft of the same model and found that there was a problem of "loose bolts" on the aircraft. During safety inspections of Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft by multiple institutions and companies, multiple Boeing aircraft have also been exposed to accidents.
On the 17th local time, the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States announced that it had completed inspections of the first batch of 40 Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft. The bureau stated that after the inspection is completed, the data will be thoroughly reviewed to determine whether aircraft of the same model can resume flight. On the same day, Alaska Airlines publicly announced that it had completed a preliminary inspection of its Boeing 737 MAX 9 fleet and would provide the data to Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration for further analysis. The company also stated that it will continue to cancel all flights of the same type of Boeing aircraft before the 19th.
According to reports from Boeing, on the 16th local time, the company appointed retired US Navy Admiral Kirkland Donald as an independent consultant to lead a comprehensive quality review of Boeing's commercial aircraft quality management system.
However, the next day, according to foreign media reports, on the 17th local time, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who had ended his trip to Davos Forum, planned to take a Boeing 737 to Washington, D.C., but the plane had a "serious failure" due to oxygen leakage, and Blinken was forced to change planes. According to the members of his accompanying news team, the plane Antony Blinken had planned to take had mechanical problems.