The Airlines Boeing jet that saw a plug door blow out at 16,000 feet was scheduled for an emergency safety check that same day, it has been revealed. The airliner's engineers were concerned about two warning alerts that sounded in the days before the doomed flight on January 5, but it remained in service as it takes three warnings to trigger more aggressive action. Rather than take the Boeing 737 Max 9 out of service, the airliner decided it should embark on three more flights the next day that would end in , , the site of an Alaska Airlines maintenance facility.
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