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SEATTLE. – The boss of Boeing has admitted the planemaker was at fault after one of its aircraft suffered a door blow-out shortly after take-off in the US.
No-one was injured when the unused cabin door broke away from the Alaska Airlines flight from Portland, Oregon on Friday.
The US has grounded 171 of the Boeing 737 Max 9 planes since the incident.
On Tuesday, Boeing’s president and chief executive Dave Calhoun said the firm was “acknowledging our mistake”.
The door “plug” which fell away from the aircraft weighed 27kg (60lb) and was used to fill an emergency exit that was built into the plane, but not required by Alaska Airlines.
The missing section of the plane was retrieved from the back garden of a Portland teacher, according to the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). – BBC
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