Boeing Gets a Scolding for Leaking Secret Probe Details

Boeing has gotten itself into more trouble with the feds after allegedly spilling confidential information about the investigation into January’s terrifying door plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight.

An unnamed executive for the troubled plane maker told a media briefing earlier this week that missing paperwork may have caused the freak mid-air accident in January when a door plug flew off a Boeing 737 Max 9 shortly after takeoff, sparking a federal investigation and crisis within the company.

But the National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday tore into Boeing for revealing “non-public investigative information” at the briefing and also allegedly misrepresenting the entire probe by suggesting the missing paperwork was to blame. Boeing had claimed the four bolts needed to keep the door plug in place had never been installed because workers never received the paperwork telling them to do so.

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