"Amid a federal investigation into what caused a door plug to blow off a Boeing 737 Max 9 jet in January, a Boeing top official said the company cannot find documents about the door plug and it's likely that such records never existed.

Ziad Ojakli, the executive vice president of government operations at Boeing, said employees looked "extensively" and failed to turn up any paperwork about the "opening and closing of the door plug," he said in a letter to Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell on Friday.

According to Ojakli, Boeing's working hypothesis is that "the documents required by our processes were not created when the door plug was opened.""


SOURCE:

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/09/12372...-investigation

https://www.wsj.com/business/airline...owout-d4cdfa6d

This WSJ article is behind a paywall, but the headline itself is troubling.

I wonder if this isn't just some arm-twisting because Boeing is not being totally cooperative.

Criminal investigation opened...

https://www.newsnationnow.com/busine...investigation/

Simple... the dog ate the paperwork.

Not quite so simple. The FAA has shutdown significant operations for this kind of failure, and Boeing is currently in their crosshairs. They better get their act together.

Boeing, last I heard, is the largest US exporter by $ value. FAA is not going to just yank their cert like some fly-by-night 135 outfit.

Boeing knows that, and may have taken full advantage of that knowledge.

Actually, the paperwork was inadvertently left on the door plug behind the cabin wall. It is currently somewhere in northern Oregon and/or southern Washington State, no doubt sitting very close to where D. B. Cooper and the remains of his $200k came to rest.

Aviation maintenance lives and dies by paperwork. However, it may be in the better intrest of Boeing if the paperwork is not available in this case.

Hmmm, I’m no conspiracy theorist. But I am a coincidence noticer. So they expect people to believe that miraculously, when a criminal investigation is opened, the paperwork somehow just disappeared. Yeah right. Absolutely pathetic.

Exactly.

FAA is a powerful agency OF the government...

Boeing IS the government.