Boeing blames missing paperwork for Alaska Air incident, prompting rebuke from safety regulators [Video]

For months, missing paperwork has hindered the investigation into how a door plug blew off a 737 Max on an Alaska Airlines flight in January, making it difficult to find out who made the near tragic mistake. This week, Boeing disclosed that the paperwork may have caused the problem in the first place.It was already well known that no documentation was found to show who worked on the door plug. At a briefing for journalists at Boeing’s 737 Max factory in Renton, Washington, Boeing said that lack of paperwork is why the four bolts needed to hold the door plug in place were never installed before the plane left the factory in October. The workers who needed to reinstall the bolts never had the work order telling them the work needed to be done.Without the bolts, the door plug incident was pretty much inevitable. Luckily, it wasn’t fatal.It’s a sign …