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Aviation News International –\u00a0The Department of Justice (DOJ)<\/a>\u00a0is reportedly opening a probe into the Jan. 5 Alaska Airlines blowout, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

Investigators have reportedly contacted several passengers and crew members on the Jan. 5 flight, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing “documents and people familiar with the matter.”<\/p>\n

“In an event like this, it\u2019s normal for the DOJ to be conducting an investigation. We are fully cooperating and do not believe we are a target of the investigation,”\u00a0Alaska Airlines<\/a>\u00a0told Fox News Digital in an email statement.<\/p>\n

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The article stated the probe would “inform the Justice Department’s review of whether Boeing complied with an earlier settlement that resolved a federal investigation” as a result of two fatal incidents involving Boeing 737 Max jets in 2018 and 2019.<\/p>\n

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A plastic sheet covers an area of the fuselage of the Alaska Airlines N704AL Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft outside a hangar at Portland International Airport Jan. 8, 2024, in Portland, Ore.\u00a0(Mathieu Lewis-Rolland\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)<\/a>\u00a0rescinded its grounding order for Boeing’s 737 Max jet in November 2020 after a 20-month review after crashes in 2018 and 2019 killed 346 passengers.<\/p>\n

Investigators have reportedly begun notifying passengers on the Jan. 5 flight that they are potential crime victims in the case, according to a document viewed by The Wall Street Journal. Pilots and flight attendants on the plane have already been interviewed, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n

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Fox News Digital has also reached out to the DOJ for an additional statement.<\/p>\n

A National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report\u00a0released last month<\/a>\u00a0found that four key bolts were missing from the door plug.<\/p>\n

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Investigators have reportedly begun notifying passengers on the Jan. 5 flight that they are potential crime victims in the case, according to a document viewed by the Wall Street Journal. Pilots and flight attendants on the plane have already been interviewed, according to the outlet.\u00a0\u00a0(Beata Zawrzel\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Overall, the observed damage patterns and absence of contact damage or deformation around holes associated with the vertical movement arrestor bolts and upper guide track bolts in the upper guide fittings, hinge fittings, and recovered aft lower hinge guide fitting indicate that the four bolts that prevent upward movement of the MED plug were missing before the MED plug moved upward off the stop pads,” the report states.<\/p>\n

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Alaska Airlines flight 1282 made an emergency landing Jan. 5, shortly after taking off from\u00a0Oregon\u2019s Portland International Airport<\/a>\u00a0when a door plug blew off the jetliner as it was ascending for a trip to California.<\/p>\n

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