Boeing, the largest aircraft manufacturer in the U.S., is refusing to provide information on the Alaska Airlines plane that lost a large chunk of its wall in January while in flight, the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) told senators on Wednesday.
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation that Boeing was refusing to tell investigators the names of people on a 25-member team that worked on a door plug that came off the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 minutes after it had taken off from Portland. Homendy also said that the company has not provided documentation about a repair job on the panel that blew out of the plane, forcing the flight to make an emergency landing.
“Boeing has not provided us with the documents and information that we have requested numerous times over the past few months,…
