Boeing may be at fault for a fuselage panel that blew off of an Alaska jet earlier this month, according to an anonymous source talking to the Seattle Times.
In an exclusive report by Dominic Gates, a Pulitzer Prize-winning aerospace journalist for the Times, the panel in question may have been reinstalled improperly by Beoing mechanics on the Renton assembly line.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the incident, but if the allegations are true, Boeing would be primarily at fault for the accident.
Initial thoughts were that Spirit AeroSystems, which originally installed the panel, would be the logical culprit.
That panel, a door plug used to seal
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