An Alaska Airlines flight that had just left Portland, Ore., had to make an emergency landing after a side panel of the plane seemingly detached mid-flight. Passengers said no one was hurt and the cabin crew remained calm. KGW’s Alma McCarty reports.
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Door!
Not even Indiana Jones can match this experience. Boeing looks more and more like Disney. They weren’t calm, they were petrified.
I will never ever fly Boeing 737 MAX. It is MAXimum unsafe. So many people have died and now a hole in a brand new plane?
Everyday can be adventurous here, and it’s not cheap either.
This has never happened before, and here it is again!
Late with this one…
Boeing quality.
Yoooooooooo 😮😮😮😮
It’s a brand new 737 Max. Somehow that got left out of the reporting.
Protecting Boeing
It’s a 737. Probably the most dangerous used public plane in use.
Boeing is a mess a mere shadow of what it once was and the 737 is a perfect example the thing is cursed
Depressurized? Bruh I would call air traffic control like WE LOST A DOOR, I REPEAT, WE LOST A DOOR!!!!!
Yep.
They don’t know that from the cockpit
@@nunyab.. that’s what is crazy to me, I have asked why there is not cameras on the plane for the Pilots before, view of engines, tail and inside the plane?
They ought to permanently ground the Max 8,9,10. This is ridiculously at this point.
But the MAX 7 if okay 😂
Don’t be such a drama queen. There’s 1200 in the 737 Max fleet and this is the second incident post grounding lift. Given that there’s been tens of thousands of flights, these two incidents are statistically insignificant. Plus grounding the planes will just lead to increased ticket prices…
@@CandyMan2001yep this seems like a poor job on the false door. Definitely quality control issues at Boeing.
Panel? You mean a door….
No, we mean a panel. No door there. A door opening, yes, but no door.
That was the emergency door, it’s just that it took the door and the panel around it all at once.
It was an emergency door but it was decommissioned so it wasn’t actually located in an emergency exit row. The people sitting near it likely had no idea they were sitting near a door. The only interior clues (prior to the the door blowing off) would have been slightly wider spacing between that window and the two adjacent windows.
It’s called a Plug Door, not an Emergency Exit, on a tighter seat configuration (more passengers) then it becomes an emergency exit, on this seat configuration on this aircraft (less passengers) an emergency exit is not required, therefore it becomes a Plug instead of an emergency exit
Thank you! It was bugging me trying to figure out what it was. @@ytzpilot
The other thing to point out is on the interior of the aircraft they just panel over top of the plug with regular panels and the window in the plug is the same size and spacing as any other windows on the aircraft, therefore from the outside you can see where they have the option to install an emergency exit but they install a plug instead, and from the inside the panels are the same throughout therefore if you were sitting next to it you would never know it was there. That also explains the damage from the inside, when the plug failed it sucked that interior panel out with it because that panel is too weak to withstand that kind of pressure, you can clearly see that in the picture.
You can also Google search MAX 9 interiors and you can see the emergency exits over the wings, but you won’t see an emergency exit in the area of this plug, it just looks the same as the other panels
Third point I don’t believe any US airlines ordered an emergency exit on this opening, it is there as an option but from what I know there are no US Airliners that required this option. The plug is installed by Boeing and the airlines should never touch it, the do get inspected on scheduled checks
👉👉 Has the fallen piece been found? Where did it fall onto?
Fell in exactly the same spot DB Cooper landed. So good luck finding it.
The boy and mother get a coupon for a free complimentary drink 🥤 on their next Alaska airline purchase .
Non alcoholic, of course.
What kind of service is this???
Full view service.
Cant belive this! Subjecting passengers in a bad situation
Okay…now you can clap.
B737 Max is just born bad…
Door may not have been properly latched. Did not appear to be extreme deconstruction of the aft 47 section entry.
having just moved away from the pacific northwest, i can guarantee you that DEI has contributed the lowering of safety standards at Boeing and Alaska Airlines. their corporate suites are probably busy making indigenous land occupation declarations at their meetings instead of doing their actual work.
Libs, ban 737 max
Strange, it’s not a Chinese-made plane
Boeing and state-owned Aviation Industry Corp. of China founded Tianjin Boeing in 2001. It makes around 13,000 composite parts and components for civilian Boeing aircraft every month and has delivered nearly 1.5 million parts, used in planes the world over, since its formation….
So it definitely has a lot of Chinese parts!
What happens when the McKinsey type parasites push aside the engineers? Watch the video.
This is not nearly as dangerous as a rip in the hull where you don’t know if it’s going to continue ripping. Think of the Hawaii Air flight that had the top hull of where first class would be ripped completely off. Yet it still landed safely.
That accident changed the way the planes skin is riveted to the airframe. A runaway tear is nearly impossible now.
At Boeing they have nothing on their minds but safety…….
This kid is a legend now , period
Glad it wasn’t at 30,000!
tf did the door go tho?
There was a small dog that got sucked out. Not sure why they aren’t reporting it??
Someone should start a GoFundMe for that boy to get a new phone. Imagine being a kid and losing your phone out of a plane like that 🙁
Ngl I have so many photos on my phone that are not saved to iCloud so if this happened I’d actually start a go fund me asking for $10k cuz my pictures are worth so much more than that sentimentally
imagine being on the ground then all the sudden you get knocked out by a iPhone 15
@@Javelin3o4 or a passenger plane door.
Don’t need to. His family will probably sue and get a big settlement amount or award if it goes to trial.
Tbh in that kind of situation the phone is a lost thought.
Clearly this was Trumps fault…
Enjoy your flights people
It’s amazing everyone had their seatbelts on.
They were only at 16000 feet when the door blew off. An article I was reading did mention how bad things could have been had then been at crusing altitude when this occured.
Omg! What if it was cruising altitude at 30 thousand? Everyone and everything will be sucked out!
It doesn’t work like it does in movies.
@@CaliSteve169 you’re right. It’s worse than the movies. The whole plane would be torn apart depressurized at that extreme altitude. Can’t even breathe.. deaths would be pretty quick!
@@danleonhart1 it depends. If people are strapped and they put their masks on, they should survive
@@CaliSteve169harsh reality is no one would have their masks on at the very moment of a sudden unexpected blow out. Not to mention there’d be passengers not buckled in at cruising altitude since plane is not preparing for landing. At 30 thousand feet above Mt Everest.. Sudden decompression, which would occur if a plane door was suddenly thrust open. Anyone standing near the exit would be ejected into the sky; the cabin temperature would quickly plummet to frostbite-inducing levels, and the plane itself might even begin to break apart.
And in that moment everyone realised their bowels were working!
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Maintenance of planes is lacking. They ant the money but don’t want to fix.
omg! Beta-testing new air craft on the public… lol!!
I hope this doesn’t effect my monday flight home
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Where did it land?just as well they had seat belts on good they were all ok.scarey. he must been freezing cold hope he didnt get hypothermia.
Is it me or Alaska Airlines always in the news for something bad??? Remind me never to fly that airlines…
I’d rather fly Alaska than Malaysia Airlines😅
What is going on with Alaska Airlines lately
Looks like metal fatigue. I can already tell, the NTSB is going to be busy this year.
It’s a door plug, not metal fatigue.
So was it just lucky that no one was sitting in the seat right next to the hole? Surely that person would’ve been sucked right out, no? Or what if this happened while they were in the middle of the ocean. I’m so excited for my flight in 5 days!!!
Apparently those two seats were empty because the occupants had missed the flight. Now imagine if they were there n not belted up.
Think of the commercial that Paul Swift guy could do for FLEXSEAL. A few rolls of his sticky paper tape and it will be all better.
thats a door, aint no way thats not a door. look how sharp and clean it is especially with the rounded corners
I’m wondering about how the window pattern doesn’t seem to match on either side of that hole.
If the “door” that flew out had a window on it, wouldn’t all the windows be evenly spaced out along that wall?
The woman’s account was correct, there was no door there. However, this model was designed with that door opening in case a seating configuration requires an extra door. The number of seats on board this plane doesn’t require a door, so they just covered it up.
OK, plane expert.
Looks like it might be an “optional” exit door that just had a panel there with a window instead…and that panel wasn’t attached fully? Actually I’m certain that’s what it was: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Alaska_737_Max_9.jpg
Yes that is a door. Maybe emergency exit door
“PANEL”. PANEL? NO , HOW ABOUT A DOOR? AN EMERGENCY DOOR. WE LIVE IN A CULTURE OF LIARS. WHY LIE ABOUT THAT? FOR WHAT REASON?
imagine the videos and commentary we would have if this was on Spirit Airlines..lol
WAKE UP ……this was not a panel it was a fuc’ing DOOR !!!! All 737’s need to be grounded again !!!! Boeing needs oversight. They have let the bean counters cut corners again !!!
Boeing really sucks.
Who else is flying 737 Max except US airlines?
Ryan Air, Air Canada, Lion Air, AeroMexico, Garuda, Singapore Airlines, and numerous others.
@@davidmalloy619 It is grounded now in US, did they ground it too?
Oh my word
Why arent they calling the door the “door”?
People accused me of being ignorant because this can’t happen nianh nianh nianh. Apparently it can eh? You arrogant engineers!
Ya know, I thought I heard something else bad about the safety record of the 737 Max a couple years ago….. 🤔 💭
McDonellBoeing strikes again.
I’m curious what caused this.
Made in USA quality 😂😂😂
Remember on every flight when the captain tells the cabin crew to verify the doors? This is why!
All the money for improvements in tooling and machinery and retention of employees instead went to executive bonuses.
While the executives were getting outrageous compensation checks, all the manufacturing was outsourced to thousands of companies. Needless to say, quality check was probably not to done on every single part… In the meantime, employees lost their pensions to executive compensations as they were touting what a good job they were doing outsourcing and maintaining margins.
Offshoring has been the biggest mistake America’s made, and it was condoned and even sponsored by Congress. Shame on us.
Bonuses? Don’t forget Congress. Where do you think the millions upon millions upon millions of dollars that are needed to ‘win’ an ‘election’ come from? The good news though, at least for now, is that we don’t need to take the latest PFoeing booster shot before we are allowed to fly.
Just make sure your next flight is an Airbus plane!
Boeing…
Here to read the excuses Boing and the propaganda media have to say
Why didn’t the pilot say mayday ?
All of the early reports kept saying it was a window that blew out tearing part of the fuselage with it. This is the picture I wanted to see that’s a hatch that blew out. Maybe the window blew out first but that’s not a tear that’s a hatch that blew out that shouldn’t happen. It looks more like a emergency hatch even though there’s seats next to it that’s what it looks like to me.
As a self-confessed aviation nerd who married at an airport many years ago I also watch all those Crash Investigation series…..I will travel on any Western Airline apart from Alaskan Air…..Why? Because any accident is not because of management…E.G. 9/11 or even the recent crash in Japan but in the 1990’s Alaskan Airlines was running at a loss and so the board and CEO KNOWINGLY didn’t do basic maintanence on planes. About 100 people died because an Alaskan plane inverted and crashed into the ocean……The pilot’s were on audio doing everything to regain control of the plane but the whole stabilizer on the plane has broken off……That a board knowingly and willingly killed so many people to cut cost is unforgivable to me and I will NEVER fly on them…….Youtube Air Crash Investigations ans see how these died…….It was AVOIDABLE.
A door fell off in the air? Seems like Boeing is full of surprises. What’s next?
Build quality is questionable post covid
that’s not a panel nor a window. that my friends is whats left of a door… question is? (who) tampered with that door on the tarmat..Maintenance crew? cleaners? flight crew? Hmmmmm?
That’s my thought. Ground crews have to be better verified, and all work should be recorded on a 24 he loop
What a piece 😏
reminds me of that one homelander panel
Probably caused by metal fatigue and maintenance error on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 like Aloha Air 243
on April 28, 1988
.. the plane is two weeks old
@@craig7350alaska airlines agent told me the maintenance people just cover the door up from a previously door.
10,000 feet altitude ‘only’. Lucky it was not 30,000.
If Boeing stopped stretching the 737 they wouldn’t need another door in the back!
Every fastener broke free of each mounting hole, so what grade of bolts did they use? Grade P, for plastic?
I live in Portland, this explains why I found an airplane door in my pool
Dang and this happened less then a week after the a350 crash 😢
This is 2024 folks
Flight attendants, please arm doors and cross check.
Imagine if someone didn’t have their seatbelt on and just flew out
That’s a pretty big panel😂
That’s the 737 right there.
Ok! Always have those seat belts on. Airplanes are proving very unpredictable nowdays. Literally anything out of the odd can happen.
*Carbage US Engineering*
Cheaper and cheaper everything will get built, while the cost of it will go up. Soon you will be paying for cardboard airplane rides for 500,000$ a ticket.
thank god that some captured a video…curious? the 2 dark headed males sitting next to that Door panel, were they Orientals? and did the ticket rep at the counter calculate to place them there deliberately?
😂😂😂😂 can you imagine??? Dang…..
Please, gimme the seat with the panoramic window.
What blew out was the plug to cover the extra hole in the left rear of the 737 Max 9 for another door. The Max 9 can be configured for long haul flights by removing some seats and installing another rear door for extra food carts to move on to the plane faster; on shorter flights you have more seats and less food to carry.
Do I have to pay extra for that kind of window seat?
What row had the blow out???? For future reference.
So, rather than investigating, identifying and rectifying the problem, the airline simply limited its flights to overland (where wreckage could be recovered more easily if it crashed)!? 🤷♂️🤔 Flying Boeing is like Russian roulette. Flying Alaska Airlines is a death wish…
And they said Made in America is high quality. SMH.
There is a very good chance that the American supervisors and assemblers at Boeing knowingly are cutting cost and corners at the publics safety expense. Flight MU5735 in CHINA on March 21st 2022 fell apart midair from Kunming to Guangzhou and nose dived into the ground killing over 132 people on board. The aircraft was an American made 737 design, and probably fabricated by the same team that put together the 737 MAX that had lost one its door panels in January 5th 2023…(the same plane design and the same corporation)…I urge countries to not purchase anything from Boeing and look elsewhere for commercial aircraft
Boieng said it was a terrorist flying and not their responsibility…Boycott Boeing!!!
Alaska Airlines emergency landing prediction, check!
All i have to say is United flight 811. And boeing and the ntsb coverup on Boeing defects with doors and locking bolts. I am not suprised
It’s called mechanical failure. In other words 💩 happens. Even if something is per checked prior to take off.