United Airlines finds loose bolts on grounded Boeing 737 jets
Erin Burnett OutFront
CNN
3.9 • 715 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On front next, the breaking news, United Airlines says inspectors have found loose bolts on more Boeing airplane doors, the same type of plane that had the mid-air disaster with a door blowing out on that Alaska Airlines flight. |
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| 0:38.9 | And good evening. I'm Aaron Burnett. Out front tonight, we begin with the breaking news. United Airlines |
| 0:43.6 | revealing that inspectors have found loose bolts on more plane door plugs. It's really sobering, right, |
| 0:50.5 | just to hear that. It comes just days after the terrifying incident that you're looking at here on that |
| 0:54.6 | Alaska Airlines flight the door plug blown out of a Boeing 737 that took off from Portland Oregon with 177 people on board left that gaping hole in the plane they were flying right that moment that you're looking at an altitude to 16,000 feet. A new statement from United |
| 1:11.4 | tonight says, we have found instances that appear to relate to installation issues in the door |
| 1:16.1 | plug, for example, bolts that needed additional tightening. Now let's just show you some images |
| 1:21.7 | of the door plug itself. That was where it was ripped from the plane on Friday night. |
| 1:25.7 | You can see the size there. |
| 1:29.9 | It's about the size of a refrigerator. |
| 1:32.8 | The NTSB now saying the plane was actually restricted from flying long routes over the ocean |
| 1:34.6 | at the time this happened. |
| 1:35.5 | It obviously didn't happen over the ocean, |
| 1:36.8 | but it had been restricted from those sorts of flights |
| 1:39.0 | because of a warning light for pressurization |
| 1:41.8 | had come on three times in recent weeks, which had led |
| 1:44.8 | them to think, well, then you can't fly it over water in case you need to land quickly. |
| 1:48.9 | Well, thank goodness for that, that they were following that because they did land quickly and |
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