Alaska pilot describes ‘chaos’ as Boeing officials quizzed on mid-flight blowout

Co-pilot had headset torn off by force of panel blowout as investigators hold hearing on January accident

The mid-flight blowout of a panel from a Boeing 737 Max jet was so powerful that it blew open the plane's cockpit door and tore off the co-pilot's headset, and federal investigators began questioning officials from Boeing and its key supplier on Tuesday to understand how the accident occurred.

It was chaos," the co-pilot of that Alaska Airlines flight on the 5 January said in documents released by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).