Disarray at Boeing plant prior to door plug blowout, WSJ reports

Last year, work inside Boeing’s (BA) Renton, Washington factory halted on a future 737 MAX jet, Andrew Tangel and Sharon Terlep of The Wall Street Journal reports. Two weeks had passed since workers flagged damaged rivets on a fuselage that needed to be fixed. The section was assembled by Spirit AeroSystems (SPR) in Wichita, Kansas and was shipped to Boeing’s plant. Once the target time for completion passed, employees escalated the situation to a “Tier 3” priority to get high-level attention at the factory, according to an internal Boeing log. The same plane would later lose its door plug panel in flight months later.