THE Transport Ministry has not received any information on the emergency door plug which was found in the backyard of a schoolteacher in Portland, Oregon.
The door with the purported “Made in Malaysia” inscription blew off an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 Flight 1282 which made an emergency landing on Jan 5.
Transport Minister Anthony Loke said as of today he had yet to receive any information on it.
"We only know of it from a news report based on an eyewitness. We do not know if it is true or false," he told a press conference here today.
He said they he would ask the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia to look into it if there is any official report from the airline company.
Earlier reports said a schoolteacher, Bob Sauer, who found the door plug that fell onto a tree in his compound, took photographs of the object.
Among the details that he gave the American authorities and the media was that he had read the manufacturing details written on the object, a part of the plane’s fuselage.
According to a report by the Oregon Public Broadcasting on its news portal (www.opb.org), Sauer said the details clearly said that it was manufactured in Malaysia.
The report added that he was intrigued to see the door plug’s serial number and other manufacturing details handwritten on the door in permanent marker. - The Vibes, January 12, 2024
