On March 6 local time, members of the US Congress and federal regulators severely criticized Boeing for failing to submit all the necessary materials for investigation two months after the "door plug falling off" accident of its airliner. Boeing hurriedly submitted a list that afternoon.

△ On January 5, a door stopper in the cabin of a Boeing 737MAX9 airliner fell off during flight.

On January 5 this year, a door stopper of the cabin of a Boeing 737MAX9 airliner of Alaska Airlines fell off during flight. The plane made an emergency landing, causing no casualties. The National Transportation Safety Commission of the United States subsequently launched an investigation into the incident. Preliminary inspection showed that four bolts that should have fixed the door plug in place were missing.

Jennifer Homendy, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Committee of the United States, said earlier in the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the 6th that Boeing failed to cooperate in submitting the list of aircraft assembly staff involved in the investigation and some key record information.

Homendy said that the investigators had not obtained the list of 25 workers involved in the installation of the door plugs of the aircraft involved. Investigators also "repeatedly" asked Boeing to provide records of information related to the opening and closing of door plugs and the removal of bolts. However, "it has been two months since the incident, and we have not yet received such information. This is ridiculous".

Maria Cantwell, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, criticized Boeing's practice on the same day as "too disappointing". She intended to summon Dave Calhoun, CEO of Boeing, at the hearing. She had already written to Calhoun asking him to provide the above employee list to the National Transportation Safety Commission within 48 hours.

A spokesman of the National Transportation Safety Commission said that shortly after Homendy's critical remarks, the Commission received the list of employees submitted by Boeing at about 14:00 EST on the 6th.

Boeing said in a statement the same day that it had submitted a complete list of employees of the aircraft involved in accordance with the latest requirements. However, Boeing said that "if the door plug removal process is not recorded, then we have no documents to share" in terms of the relevant records of the door plug required by the Commission. According to Boeing, shortly after the accident, Boeing submitted a list of some employees to the National Transportation Safety Committee, including experts who may have access to relevant information about the door stopper.

In recent years, Boeing's airliners have suffered frequent safety accidents. In 2018 and 2019, Indonesia Lion Airlines and Ethiopian Airlines suffered air crashes respectively, with a total of 346 people killed. The crashed planes were Boeing 737MAX8. Boeing 737MAX series airliners were grounded for nearly two years in many countries and regions around the world.

The Federal Aviation Administration of the United States said on the 4th of this month that the audit found that Boeing had "non-compliance" in "manufacturing process control, parts transportation and storage, and product control".

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