The plane’s plug door will be sent to the NTSB’s lab for testing, Homendy said. “We don’t know if there were bolts there, or if they are just missing and departed when the door plug departed,” Homendy said at the news conference. “That will be determined when we take the plug to our lab.” “We have not yet recovered the four bolts that restrain it from his vertical movement and we have not yet determined if they existed there,” Crookshanks said. The door plug is typically held in place by a series of stop fittings and has a set of bolts that prevent the door from moving up and potentially flying off the plane mid-flight. Somehow, the plug on Alaska 1282 moved upward, NTSB’s Clint Crookshanks explained at a news conference Monday night. Investigators have so far determined the components that may have been involved in the refrigerator-sized door plug coming loose, but not yet determined why it blew out. National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that the fuselage plug that blew out of the plane mid-flight Friday and was recovered from the yard Monday has “quite a lot” it can tell investigators and “really was the missing piece in the investigation.” New details are emerging on the plane’s detached fuselage “plug door” and its components as both Alaska and United Airlines say they found loose hardware on a number of their Boeing 737 Max 9s, which for days have been grounded nationwide for inspections. Federal officials examining the horrifying midflight blowout of part of an Alaska Airlines aircraft’s fuselage are testing the detached piece for clues on what led up to the plane’s “explosive decompression” after the missing piece was discovered in an Oregon backyard.
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