abc's gio benitez has the details. >> the inspections delayed by alaska airlines and united waiting ontical documentation from the faa and boeing detailing what the airlines need to look for in order to get the max nine safely back in the air. this as the ceo of boeing, again takes responsibility, acknowledging their mistake, saying a quality control failure led to that door plug flying off the alaska airlines jet 16,000ft in the air friday after a fuselage plug blew out. >> that's the mistake. >> an initial inspections united and alaska each finding loose bolts in the door plugs of other 737 max nines alaska canceling all max nine flights until saturday. but neither airline can fly the max nine until cleared by the faa, and questions for the company that manufactured the max nine fuselage spirit aerosystems, in a federal class action lawsuit, a former employee alleges the company's products suffered from an excessive amount of defects. the company wouldn't comment on pending litigation, but the ceo of boeing has confidence in spirit aerosystems. >> we're not going to point fingers the

here's gio benitez tonight. >> reporter: three weeks after that door plug flew off an alaska airlines flight 16,000 feet in the air, the ceo of boeing came to capitol hill and faced tough questions about the safety of its planes. >> we fly safe planes. we don't put airplanes in the air that we don't have 100% confidence in. i'm here today in the spirit of transparency. >> reporter: but boeing's ceo did not answer questions about a new report in "the seattle times" claiming that door plug had been "removed for repair, then reinstalled improperly by boeing mechanics." >> what is your comment today on the news that it was boeing, not spirit? >> reporter: instead, he referred questions to investigators. >> ntsb, thank you. >> reporter: the ntsb still analyzing that door plug to see if the four bolts that hold it in place were damaged or ever installed. since the incident, the ceo of alaska airlines say its inspectors found many loose bolts on its planes. >> i am more than frustrated and disappointed. i am angry this happened to alaska airlines. it happened to our guests. it happened to ou

here's abc news reporter gio benitez with a look. >> 50 years after we landed on the moon, whole apollo program is really the true beginning of what's to come in the future. another potential giant leap for humankind as nasa funds advanced missions back to the moon by commercial operators, the peregrine lunar lander, built by astrobotic, is set to launch on the maiden flight of ula's vulcan rocket from the kennedy space center. but landing on the moon is tricky. they ask us as a company, to buy a launch vehicle and to build a lander that can deliver their payloads, in this case, science payloads to the surface of the moon 2024 is shaping up to be the year of the lunar lander, with five us spacecraft and at least one japanese lander heading to the south pole of the moon. >> it is a quarter million miles away. it is in the vacuum of space. um, you are controlling a vehicle that you can't use joystick with from here on earth . >> these missions are critical. before nasa can land artemis three on the lunar south pole, operating under harsh conditions , peregrine won't make it to the moon un

abc news reporter gio benitez has this update. reporter this morning, the growing fallout from that alaska airlines flight losing its door plug mid-air. >> the company saying it found some loose hardware during its initial inspection of its 737 max nine fleet, while united airlines, which has 79 max nines, said it found loose bolts on some of its door plugs, which are used to cover and seal optional emergency exits. the airline won't say how many planes are affected, but that they appear to relate to installation issues in the door plug and need additional tightening. >> the fact that loose boltzmann found in other similar aircraft indicates that possibly this is an endemic problem that was created in manufacturing. >> this after that missing door plug from alaska's max nine was finally found. the ntsb, searching for four bolts that should have stopped the door plug from flying off the plane at 16,000ft. what everybody was looking for in portland was actually in my backyard, and i was the first one to actually see it landing in th

private company in america is set to launch a lander to the moon's surface, abc news reporter gio benitez has a look. >> 50 years after we landed on the moon, a whole apollo program is really the true beginning of what's to come in the future. another potential giant leap for humankind as nasa funds advanced missions back to the moon by commercial operators, the peregrine lunar lander, built by astrobotic, is set to launch on the maiden flight of ula's vulcan rocket from the kennedy space center. but landing on the moon is tricky. they ask us as a company, to buy a launch vehicle and to build a lander that can deliver their payloads, in this case, science payloads to the surface of the moon 2024 is shaping up to be the year of the lunar lander, with five us spacecraft and at least one japanese lander heading to the south pole of the moon. it is a quarter million miles away. >> it is in the vacuum of space. um, you are controlling a vehicle that you can't use a joystick with from here on earth. >> these missions are critical. before nasa can land artemis three on the lunar south pole, oper

and good owe benitez reporting. >>> stunning new details about the effort to hide defense secretary lloyd austin's hospitalization. austin in the icu for days before president biden was even told. how does this happen? martha raddatz standing by tomorrow. >>> president biden in south carolina today, speaking at an historic black church in charleston, where nine worshippers were killed by a stranger they had invited to join them. president biden denouncing white supremacy, and taking aim at nikki haley and donald trump for their comments on the civil war. rachel scott reporting. >>> tonight, the startling scene in that same courtroom where a judge was attacked. the suspect now in a spit mask and shackled. appearing before that same judge again, and what she said. >>> it was supposed to be america's first lunar landing in 50 years. but what went wrong today hours after takeoff? >>> outside new york city tonight, the crash and explosion. a tanker truck erupting. several cars involved. >>> and america strong tonight. it was a pretty big new year's wish for the dogs, and what's happened tonigh

alaska airlines and united airlines have now found while conducting their own inspections, and gio benitez reporting. >>> former president trump in federal court today. his attorneys making the case that presidential immunity protects trump from anything related to the election and january 6th. a judge then asking trump's lawyers, if a president orders the assassination of a political rival, would presidential immunity protect him? their answer. pierre thomas tonight. >>> six days to iowa. with donald trump in federal court, nikki haley in iowa. boosted by new polling in new hampshire, showing her closing in on trump. ron desantis returning to iowa tonight. rachel scott is there. >>> the chilling images tonight, masked gunmen storming a tv studio during a live broadcast. the studio crew taken hostage. >>> sinead o'connor's cause of death just revealed tonight. >>> and this evening, some now asking, how did an iphone sucked from that plane at 16,000 feet survive the fall without cracking, when an iphone can fall from your pocket and shatter? >>> good evening and it's great to have you with

one was also to welcome commissioner ron benitez . i don't know what would be an appropriate time if he wanted to say a few words. i know that maybe he i got to say a few words when i first started. i don't know if that's something that we can do that at the commission or reports item. okay next one. just one. yes just to give them a few minutes to prepare, uh, address to the public. yeah. the state of the nation, according to commissioner ron benitez. um i also wanted to reflect my deepest gratitude for our co commissioners, commissioner tiffany carter, and for tricia as well. so, um, yeah, i'm. i'm glad that they're, you know, they have, i know everybody has other things to do. and so i appreciate all of you also to give your time to this commission. um, and, oh, you know, i wanted to say on apec that i appreciate the way that you've been looking at this, because i, you know, it it's an indicator to me. obviously the concern around apec as well as concern around transportation mitigation, concerns about any other sort of like out si

commissioner benitez, thank you for the information. just, um, out of my own knowledge of how long do these businesses have to be in operation, can it be a new business that has just decided to right there and open maybe this year they're not even six months in operation yet, or up to legacy businesses as well. that it's a great question. so with these particular products, i think it's a minimum of two years in business. um, but i think tejal mentioned earlier, we're thinking about sf lens as part of this kind of whole landscape of the resources that the city has to offer. and so we know that there are cdfi programs that are available for businesses that are just starting out for startups and for entrepreneurs. and so we imagine sf lens to be one of the kind of rungs in the ladder to stepping stones along the way. but this particular one, when we went out to the banks to qualify these products, we mentioned two years in business. um, do you have information that, um, we could easily like email out? do we have that already? okay. and i'l

abc news reporter gio benitez in this morning's gma first look. >> lucky to be alive.ing the incredibly shocking moment a state trooper goes flying during a routine traffic stop on oklahoma s i-40. the trooper gets up and quickly runs away to avoid any additional danger. surviving and calling for help. 3-6 two city hit by car. >> start ems. >> the officer sustaining a relatively minor injury to his left arm, thanks in large part to his decision to approach the vehicle from the passenger side. and this morning that trooper is speaking out to gma. >> you know, always tell your loved ones you love them and it just kind of gets to where it's a routine thing. and then when something like this happens you're like, wow that was a close one. i almost didn't come home tonight. >> and we're going to have much more on this scary close call coming up at 7 a.m. with your gma first look. i'm gio benitez abc news, new york. >> 556 on our friday morning we'll take you to sutro tower where we have really good visibility. no fog out there, but we do have partly to mostly cloudy skies up

. >> este sometieron a mi esposa ya este al momento de salir hacia coyuca de benítez fue donde este nosquienes lo atacaron se llevaron sus credenciales y después les amenazaron de muerte. >> vamos a seguir ahí en méxico, que es considerado 1 de los países más letales para ejercer el periodismo, porque decenas de reporteros que cubren la fuente presidencial temen por su seguridad. ahora es que se filtraron sus datos personales por internet y ahora el presidente dice que está culpando a sus opositores. >> asegura que estos hechos argumentan que es una llamada guerra sucia, así que pérez nos informa que fue lo que pasó y si fue hackeo, fue hackeo. >> los periodistas afectados escucharon atentos cada una de las respuestas del presidente. estaban llenos de dudas e incertidumbre. luego de que los datos personales de decenas de ellos fueron expuestos en una página en internet. >> sí, temo por mi seguridad. >> miguel arzate, reportero de un canal de televisión, como muchos de sus compañeros que cubren las conferencias matutinas de lópez obrador, descubrieron que la información que entregaron pa

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but first our transportation correspondent gio benitez is in portland, oregon. good morning, gio. >> reporter: hey, robin. good morning. yeah, the ntsb now knows the top fitting of the door plug was fractured so the door moved up and then out. so the big question right now is, were the bolts to hold it there ever installed, or did they break? of course, there's that new concern, what about the other planes with loose bolts? this morning the growing fallout from that alaska airlines flight losing its door plug mid air. the company saying it found some loose hardware during its initial inspection of 73 max 9 fleet. why united airlines which has 79 max 9's said it found loose bolts on some of its door plugs which are used to cover and seal optional emergency exits. the airline won't say how many planes are affected but that they appear to relate to installation issues in the door plug and need additional tightening. >> the fact that loose bolts have been found in a similar aircraft indicates possibly this is an endemic problem that was created in manufacturing. >>

transportation correspondent gio benitez is in portland, oregon, with the latest.d morning, gio. >> reporter: hey, george. good morning. this is a major investigation because they need to inspect those other max 9's. it is not an exaggeration to say that this could have been catastrophic. this morning the door plug that flew off an alaska airlines flight in mid air leaving this gaping hole behind now found after a three day search. the ntsb locating it in the back yard of a portland school teacher. the discovery coming as authorities revealed no data can be pulled from the cockpit voice recorder because it was completely overridden. >> at two hours it rerecords over it so we have nothing. >> reporter: 171 boeing 737 max 9 planes now grounded as the ntsb races to investigate what went wrong. >> 911 emergency. we are depressurized. we do need to return. >> reporter: the alaska jet, with 177 people on board, taking off from portland, oregon, friday night, when all of a sudden the so called door plug, used to cover and seal optional emergency exits, flew off. >> i look

transportation correspondent gio benitez is here with the story.ood morning, gio. >> reporter: good morning everyone. exactly three week since that terrifying alaska airlines flight. like you said, george, today alaska is putting some max 9's back in the air. we all remember the blowout this month aboard the boeing 737 max 9. the door plug flying off the plane 16,000 feet in the air. the faa and boeing sending final inspection instructions to the airline. alaska's first max 9 flight this afternoon 2 p.m. from seattle to san diego. now, the airline said the max 9 grounding cost the company $150 million. also new this morning, for the first time ever, yesterday boeing shut down its entire 737 factory for 15 hours. mechanics, quality inspectors and engineers standing down to focus exclusively on quality control, visually inspecting those work areas there. united is also putting its max 9's back in the air by sunday. of course, we're looking at those max 9's, all of them drawing in february. you'll still have some cancelled flights in the next weeks. >

she discussed the investigation tonight with abc news reporter gio benitez. >> a pressurization alert uh- li lit up in the cockpit on december 7th. on january third, on january 4th. and it was described as pretty benign. there's a backup. so they switched to all alternate pressurization and reported it maintenance tested it, put it back in service. >> does that concern you at all? >> everything concerns us, right now. bay area airports are seeing delays and cancellations related to the faa grounding. >> the 737 max nine abc seven news reporter cornell bernard spoke with frustrated passengers at sfo today. >> it's very, very, very frustrating. >> patients are from dallas, was feeling no patience at sfo sunday after alaska airlines canceled. she and her husband's 1:30 p.m. flight home. the faa grounding the airline's fleet of boeing 737 max nine planes following this scary incident on board an alaska flight friday night. i'm hearing this for the first time. >> i didn't know that they have a problem. on friday, i got a call that the flight is canceled . >> i said, i've already checked ou

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our transportation correspondent gio benitez is at reagan national airport for us.morning, gio. >> reporter: hey, robin. good morning. right at this very moment, alaska airlines and united are working on those final official inspections to get these planes back in the air. as you said, that boeing ceo told senators he takes full responsibility. overnight the faa releasing its final instructions for airlines to inspect max 9's. united already saying it's putting the planes back in the air by sunday. alaska airlines even earlier, friday. this after three weeks of investigating that door plug that flew off the alaska airlines flight 16,000 feet in the air. the faa laying out an enhanced maintenance process which will require an inspection of specific bolts, guide tracks and fittings and detailed visual inspections of left and right midcabin exit door plugs. >> it's four bolts properly installed, properly tightened. if they're in and properly inspected, these airplanes are as safe as any in the sky. the fix is simple. regaining the trust of the flying public is the hard

our transportation correspondent gio benitez joins us with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: robin, good morning. we are here at boeing's headquarters in chicago. the company's ceo got emotional. as you said, took responsibility. this morning a stark admission from boeing's ceo after that door plug flew off of the alaska airline jet at 16,000 feet. >> we're going to approach this, number one, acknowledging our mistake. we are going to approach it with 100% and complete transparency every step of the way. >> reporter: the ceo dave calhoun emotional, as he addressed employees tuesday. >> this stuff matters. everything matters. every detail matters. >> reporter: boeing says it's working with the ntsb and faa to make sure this never happens again. the company revising its final inspection protocols to the faa for those 171 grounded max 9 jets that have door plugs. the faa saying they will remain grounded for now, and that the safety of the flying public, not speed, will determine the timeline for returning the boeing 737 9 max to service. this as we lea

our transportation expert gio benitez here to explain how it happened.io. >> good morning, george. it really is incredible how they survived. this morning one of the passengers is telling us about that evacuation. the crew doing everything right to save hundreds of lives. the images are straight out of an action movie. a massive air bus 350 engulfed in flames. >> black smoke from outside started entering the cabin. >> reporter: anton was nearly one of the 400 people scrambling to get out, telling gma he was on a ski trip with his family. >> it was pitch black, fire outside the window and black smoke in the hall. you couldn't see. >> reporter: incredibly all aboard the commercial jet surviving. experts call it an apparent textbook evacuation. >> they had to take command immediately of the cabin, tell people what to do, where to do. how to do it, which exit to go out of. >> reporter: this japan airlines plane was essentially brand new, just two years old. the first a350 to be a total loss. this abc news virtual view shows the biggest factor in their surviv

gio benitez has the latest. good morning, gio. >> reporter: good morning. the ceo of boeing, dave calhoun, is heading to capitol hill to meet with senators after the door plug flew off the alaska airlines flight. this latest delta incident was likely a maintenance issue, but it comes just as boeing is already under the microscope. it was a scary incident in atlanta. >> this is aircraft looking at you. one of your nose tires just came off. >> reporter: a delta boeing 757 getting ready for takeoff, losing one of its nose tires. >> you have located the tire? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: while experts say this is likely a maintenance issue on the 31-year-old jet, boeing has faced a slew of questions over other recent incidents. >> my god, it's on fire. >> reporter: just days ago sparks shooting from the engine of a boeing 747 cargo plane over miami. then, of course, that door plug that flew off a boeing 737 max 9, 16,000 feet in the air. alaska airlines ceo says inspectors have found many loose bolts and that he's frustrated and angry. >> boeing is better than thi

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