BREAKING NEWS Alaska Airlines requests ground stop for all its mainline aircrafts
The US Federal Aviation Administration updated its status page on Sunday with the extraordinary request.
The reason for the request was not immediately clear.
Alaska Airlines and the FAA did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment outside regular business hours.
The FAA status page showed all destinations being impacted by the ground stop of Alaska's mainline aircraft.
It comes weeks after a damning report revealed that major errors by Boeing led to a door plug flying off an Alaska Airlines 737 Max mid flight, putting the lives of 175 passengers and crew at risk.
The National Transportation Safety Board said a flawed manufacturing process within Boeing and insufficient regulatory oversight caused the near catastrophic disaster.
'An accident like this only happens when there are multiple system failures,' NTSB chairman Jennifer Homendy said.
The NTSB has been investigating what went so wrong just six minutes into the January 2024 flight from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California.
The initial probe found four key bolts that were meant to hold the door plug in place were were missing from the aircraft.
It has since been established the door left Boeing's factory in Renton, Washington without those crucial bolts.
Just one of those bolts, if properly secured, would have held the door panel in place, and the other three were supposed to be used as an additional safety mechanism.
No fault was found with Alaska Airlines crew qualifications or preflight inspections.
The heroic actions of the crew of Alaska Airlines flight 1282 ensured everyone survived, Homendy found.
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