The National Transportation Safety Board says the plug covering an unused exit door thatblew out minutes into an Alaska Airlines flight Friday eveninghas been found. The agency's head said the discovery could prove vital in the investigation of the cause of the blowout, which for...
Alaska Airlines was forced to perform an emergency landing on Fridayafter a door plug was torn offof the Boeing 737 MAX 9 plane flying 171 passengers from Portland in Oregon, to Ontario in California. The incident happened after the auto-pressurisation fail light lit up on the...
The FAA declined to comment on whether the Alaska Airlines plane in question should have been allowed to keep flying. The agency said “it would be premature” to comment while the NTSB is investigating the Friday night flight. Seattle-based Alaska Airlines a...
alone this time as we were crossing into Canada and I would have had to declare a passenger on my paperwork we had submitted. The plan was to take off, call Seattle Radio to activate my flight plan, and get the border crossing transponder code before landing to clear customs at Campbell...
Alaska Airlines flight 1282 took off from Portland at 5:07 p.m. Friday for a two-hour trip to Ontario, California. About six minutes later, the chunk of fuselage blew out. Videos posted online by passengers showed a gaping hole where the paneled-over door had ...
The Federal Aviation AdministrationsaidThursday it is conducting an investigation into Boeing's 737 Max 9 aircraft following Friday'smid-air blowoutof a door plug on an Alaska Airlines flight. "This incident should have never happened and it cannot happen again," the FAA said in the statement....
Instead, it has sounded like the stops are truly like the runners or plastic pieces that slot together when you open the battery cartridge of your remote control. They guide the cover, or door plug, into place so that it can then be secured with the “click” closure or, in the case...
The National Transportation Safety Board has sent numerous parts of the airplane to their headquarters for examination to determine what led to the door plug blowing out. The actual 63 lb. plug was found in the backyard of a home south of Portland, in the flight path of Flight 1282 which ...
Two US airlines are scrambling to deal with cancellations and newly mandated inspections in the wake of the mid-flight blowout aboard an Alaska Airlines flight.
Alaska Airlines passengers file lawsuit against Boeing, airline: 'Ticking time bomb' Attorney representing 21 passengers from the Alaska Airlines flight Mark Lindquist on the need to hold Boeing and the airline accountable after a door plug blew out mid-flight Nearly two dozen Alaska Airlines...