Airlines Cancel Hundreds of Flights After Boeing 737 Mid-Air Door Blowout

Hundreds of flights have been canceled after one of Alaska Airlines’ Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft experienced a mid-air incident involving a door plug blow-out, prompting federal aviation authorities to order all Max 9 planes grounded for inspection. An Alaska Airlines flight en route from Oregon to California made an emergency landing on Jan. 5 after the door plug blew out and led to a rapid cabin decompression. The incident led the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to issue an emergency directive requiring immediate inspections of certain Boeing 737 Max 9 planes before they can be returned to service because the agency determined the unsafe condition “is likely to exist or develop in other products of the same type design.”...