The Seattle Times

The investigation into the midair blowout of a fuselage door plug on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on Jan. 5 has confirmed that four bolts that should have kept the door plug in place were missing when Boeing delivered the aircraft, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday in a preliminary report on the incident. “Four bolts that prevent upward movement of the mid exit door plug were missing before the mid exit door plug moved upward off the stop pads,” the report states. The NTSB said the door plug was opened at Boeing’s Renton, Washington, factory so a team from supplier Spirit Ae......

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Victims of false confessions that lead to wrongful convictions, like Ted Bradford, want to prohibit police from using deceptive tactics during interrogations, and they have the backing of some lawmakers. "It was the worst experience of my life," said Bradford, Washington's first DNA exoneree, when recalling his 1996 interrogation when he was accused of sexual assault. "I knew I was innocent ... no matter how many times I told them over and over, I didn't do this." House Bill 1062, sponsored by Rep. Strom Peterson, D-Edmonds, aims to make defendants' statements inadmissible in ......

Last year ended better for Boeing than Wall Street had projected, yet when the earnings details were released Wednesday, the healthy cash flow didn't seem to matter much now. "Boeing's world changed on January 5th when the Alaska Airlines door blew off, and so anything before that date is now of less relevance," financial analyst Rob Stallard of Vertical Research wrote a note to investors. Boeing lost $2.2 billion in 2023, the fifth loss in five bad years, but the best result since 2019. A few weeks ago, that might have been taken as a sign that in 2024 Boeing might finally make it back into t......

Seattle Police Department commanders have recommended possible termination for a union official who downplayed the death of a young woman struck and killed by a fellow officer last January, agreeing with the department's civilian watchdog that the union leader acted unprofessionally. The commanders issued a blistering disciplinary recommendation to police Chief Adrian Diaz on Friday, sweeping aside excuses that Officer Daniel Auderer's comments about the death of 23-year-old graduate student Jaahnavi Kandula were private or police union business. "Even crediting your explanation as true, that ......

SEATTLE — A landslide north of Vancouver has disrupted passenger train service between Seattle and Portland, Oregon, until Sunday night, according to the Washington state Department of Transportation. The slide, which occurred south of Kelso early Saturday morning, blocked the railroad tracks and triggered a 24-hour moratorium for all passenger trains per BNSF Railway rules, WSDOT spokesperson Janet Matkin said. The moratorium affects several West Coast Amtrak lines, including Coast Starlight trains. Trains previously scheduled to terminate in Seattle will instead terminate in Portland. Buses ......