As Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 landed safely at
The plane had been flying into the landing strip with a massive hole in the side of the fuselage after an emergency exit blew out 16,000 feet in the air. No one was killed or badly hurt in the incident but passengers were forced to quickly put on oxygen masks, while there were reports a child's shirt was sucked out of the plane.
All eyes are now on planemaker
Its iconic 737 is one of the most successful ever made, next to the Airbus A320, yet it has been engulfed in one of the worst scandals in the industry's history and is under scrutiny for production issues.
Two crashes in 2018 and 2019, attributed to faulty cockpit software, resulted in the deaths of 346 passengers and grounded the jets for nearly two years.
Even leaving out the disasters, a string of production glitches have hit the planemaker's delivery targets throughout this year and placed the 737 Max under further scrutiny from shareholders amid an already struggling supply chain.
The latest snafu impacted nearly threequarters of its bestselling fleet, according to the company's CFO
Federal investigators have launched a probe into how the
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