JUMBLED JET: NTSB grills Boeing over 737 Max mid-flight door blowout

WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - It’s been 8 months since a terror in the sky.

Passengers on an Alaska Airline jet - left helpless as their airplane door flew open mid-flight.

All of the 177 passengers survived. The NTSB is now tasked with figuring how this catastrophe took flight.

“This is not an a PR campaign for Boeing. What I want to know what we want to know is what happened,” said NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy

Preliminary investigations point to missing bolts as part of the problem.

But transcripts released Tuesday show a culture of cutting corners.

Those who worked on the line describe a rushed Boeing assembly plant, with an emphasis on quantity over quality in an effort to keep up with demand.

“We had approved ourselves to build at a baseline rate of 38 aircraft per month, but we were producing at a rate lower than that upper twenties to low thirties” said Elizabeth Lund.

Boeing witness appeared Tuesday as the result of a subpoena.

NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy vowed to conduct a thorough investigation.

“We will not leave until all questions are asked,” said Homendy.

This is far from the first incident with the plagued 737 Max Jets.

Just two weeks ago, a Korean Air flight experience cabin pressure failure 30 minutes after takeoff. That flight was forced into an emergency landing.

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