Wife of Irish Boeing crash victim demands probe into new plane's mid-air blow-out

Naoise Connolly Ryan with a framed photo of her husband Mick Ryan, who was killed in a Boeing 737 Max crash in 2019, says she is worried not just about the Max 9, but all Boeing Max planes. File picture: Larry Cummins

Irishwoman Naoise Connolly Ryan, whose husband died in an avoidable Boeing air crash, has called on the Irish Aviation Authority to demand a full investigation after a section of the fuselage blew out mid-air on an Alaska Airlines jet shortly after take-off last Friday.

US regulator, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), grounded a number of Max 9 planes after the incident, saying immediate inspections were needed after the eight-week-old plane made an emergency landing in Portland, Oregon. No-one was injured, but passengers said they would have serious concerns about the plane.