The Federal Aviation Administration announced it’s proposing $3.1 million in fines against Boeing for safety violations in late 2023 and early 2024, according to a press release from the government agency on Friday.

The safety violations include an incident on January 5, 2024 , when a door plug fell out of an Alaska Airlines flight traveling from Portland, Oregon. The door plug fell out of the Boeing 737 Max 9 while in flight, though thankfully nobody was hurt.

The door plug was eventually found in the backyard of a Portland schoolteacher and highlighted recent safety concerns in the wake of two deadly crashes, one in 2018 and another in 2019, that killed 346 people in total. Boeing struck a deal with the U.S. Department of Justice earlier this year to avoid criminal charges in tho

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