Alaska Airlines’ emergency last week when a door plug blew off of its Boeing Max 9 aircraft mid-flight has put flyers, airlines and federal authorities on edge.
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Amid investigations into the explosive depressurization of an Alaska Airlines flight, the door plug that blew out of the Boeing 737-9 Max airplane flying over Portland, Oregon, on Friday has been found in a schoolteacher's backyard.
Investigators said they had found the piece of fuselage that blew off a Boeing airliner over Oregon on Friday, and hoped it would provide physical evidence of what went wrong.
The gaping hole in the side of the Alaska Airlines jet opened up where aircraft maker Boeing fits a “plug” to cover an emergency exit that the airline does not use.
Before a school teacher named Bob found the missing door plug, searchers located two cell phones that appeared to have belonged to passengers on Friday’s flight.
Science teacher Bob Sauer found the plane's door plug, which fell 16,000 feet after it blew out midflight. An intact cellphone and headrest also turned up nearby.
Alaska Airlines’ emergency last week when a door plug blew off of its Boeing Max 9 aircraft mid-flight has put flyers, airlines and federal authorities on edge.
Investigators were searching Sunday for the piece of fuselage that blew off a Boeing airliner over Oregon on Friday, hoping to gain physical evidence of what went wrong. The gaping hole in the side of the Alaska Airlines jet opened up where aircraft maker Boeing fits a “plug” to cover an emergency e…
Investigators were searching Sunday for the piece of fuselage that blew off a Boeing airliner over Oregon on Friday, hoping to gain physical evidence of what went wrong. The gaping hole in the side of the Alaska Airlines jet opened up where aircraft maker Boeing fits a “plug” to cover an emergency e…
The gaping hole in the side of the Alaska Airlines jet opened up where aircraft maker Boeing fits a "plug" to cover an emergency exit that the airline does not use.
The lost door plug of a Boeing jetliner that suffered an inflight blowout over Oregon was found Sunday in a backyard near Portland by a school teacher, officials said.
Investigators said they had found the piece of fuselage that blew off a Boeing airliner over Oregon on Friday, and hoped it would provide physical evidence of what went wrong.
Investigators were searching Sunday for the piece of fuselage that blew off a Boeing airliner over Oregon on Friday, hoping to gain physical evidence of what went wrong. The gaping hole in the side of the Alaska Airlines jet opened up where aircraft maker Boeing fits a “plug” to cover an emergency e…
Investigators described the door plug as a “key missing component” in understanding why the Boeing 737 Max jet was forced to make an emergency landing with a refrigerator-sized hole in its fuselage.
The feds have asked for the public’s help finding a “plug door” that blew off an Alaska Airlines plane mid-flight Friday night, leaving a mammoth hole in the fuselage that threatened nearly 2…
CNN, NTSB, KYLE RINKER, SAM MATTHEWS, SEAN BATES By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — A Boeing 737 Max 9 earned its certificate of airworthiness on October 25, six days before it found its home with Alaska Airlines.
NTSB officials said the Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 "door plug" and two cell phones have been recovered after the Boeing 737-9 MAX blowout at 16,000 feet.
The NTSB described a chaotic scene in the Boeing 737 Max 9's cockpit after the blowout, which forced the plane to return to Portland, Oregon minutes after takeoff.
