June 2 (Reuters) - The National Transportation Safety

Board will hold a June 24 hearing to determine the probable

cause of a mid-air cabin panel blowout of a new Boeing

737 MAX 9 flight in January 2024 that spun the planemaker into a

major crisis.

The board said Monday it will hold the hearing into the

Alaska Airlines flight that prompted the Justice

Department to open a criminal investigation and declare that

Boeing ( BA ) was not in compliance with a 2021 deferred prosecution

agreement. The incident badly damaged Boeing's ( BA ) reputation and

led to the MAX 9 grounding for two weeks and a cap by the

Federal Aviation Administration on the plane's production that

remains in place.