The US Department of Justice is investigating Boeing – Kommersant

According to The Wall Street Journalciting unnamed sources and documents in its possession, the US Department of Justice is investigating Boeing in connection with the January 6 incident when an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX was in flight. happened depressurization.

The WSJ reports that Justice Department officials interviewed some of the passengers and crew members on the emergency flight. Alaska Airlines responded to the WSJ’s request with the following: “It is natural that in such cases the Department of Justice may conduct an investigation. We are fully cooperating with the investigation and do not believe that we (the airline.— “Kommersant”) are the subject of an investigation.” The WSJ also reports that, independent of the Justice Department, U.S. Department of Transportation officials have in recent weeks requested information from Federal Aviation Administration employees working in Seattle, where Boeing’s main manufacturing base is located.

In early February, the US National Transportation Safety Board reportedthat the emergency exit hatch plug on the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX was not secured at all, which led to depressurization of the cabin during the flight. A few days after the incident, during a mass inspection of Boeing 737 MAX airliners It revealedthat on many of them the manhole covers were installed improperly.

Evgeny Khvostik