Boeing is making design changes after January’s 737 MAX 9 door panel blowout

Boeing said on Tuesday it plans to make design changes to prevent a future mid-air cabin panel blowout like the one in an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 flight in January that spun the planemaker into its second major crisis in recent years. Boeing’s senior vice president for quality, Elizabeth Lund said the planemaker is working on design changes that it hopes to implement within the year and then to retrofit across the fleet. Investigators have said the plug in the new Alaska MAX...