Enda en grunn til å holde setebeltet fastspent under flyging.... Alaska Airlines setter sine MAX 9 på bakken. Boeing har lenge hatt problemer med kvalitetskontrollen generelt. Dette konkrete problemet kan ligge hos Spirit, de som bygger skrogene, også for våre P-8A Poseidon. Alaska Airlines har 65 av denne typen. (Red.)
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Alaska Airlines plane window blows out mid-air, forcing emergency landing
The flight was forced to make an emergency landing after a large section blew out in mid-air. (ELIZABETH (ALASKA AIRLINES PASSENGER))
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By FOX 12 Staff and Gray News staff
Published: Jan. 6, 2024 at 3:55 AM CET|Updated: 1
hour ago
PORTLAND
Ore. (KPTV/Gray News) - An Alaska Airlines flight was forced to make an
emergency landing at Portland International Airport on Friday night after a
large window section of the aircraft blew out in mid-air.
Alaska
Airlines posted a message on social media saying they were “aware of an
incident” aboard their flight AS1282 and said they would release more
information as it becomes available.
The
flight was headed from PDX to Ontario, California. It departed Portland at 4:40
p.m. Pacific time and was back in Portland around 5:30 p.m.
Dramatic photos sent to KPTV by a passenger, who wished to remain anonymous, show a large section of the airplane’s fuselage missing.
One
passenger reported that a child had to be held in his seat by his mother
because of the extreme depressurization. The same child’s shirt was ripped off.
Other
passengers claimed people lost their phones, which were sucked out of the
plane.
The
airplane’s oxygen masks deployed immediately after the depressurization and
multiple people used them until the plane landed in Portland.
According
to the Port of Portland, the fire department responded to the plane after it
landed and treated passengers for minor injuries. One person was taken from the
scene for additional medical treatment, but there were no serious injuries
reported.
Alaska
Airlines confirmed to KPTV via email that 174 passengers and 6 crew members
were aboard the flight.
KPTV
has reached out to the FAA, Alaska Airlines and the airport for more
information.
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| Date: | Saturday 6 January 2024 |
| Time: | 01:13 UTC |
| Type: |  Boeing 737 MAX 9 |
| Owner/operator: | Alaska Airlines |
| Registration: | N704AL |
| MSN: | 67501/8789 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2023 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 180 |
| Aircraft damage: | Minor |
| Location: | Portland, OR -  United States of America |
| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Portland International Airport, OR (PDX/KPDX) |
| Ontario International Airport, CA (ONT/KONT) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:
Alaska Airlines flight AS1282, a Boeing 737 MAX 9 (registered N704AL), experienced a rapid decompression after the loss of a large panel on the left side of the plane.
The flight made a safe return to Portland (PDX).
BBC
Alaska Airlines grounds 737 Max 9 planes after window
blows out mid-air
- Published
15 minutes ago
By Thomas
Mackintosh & Kathryn Armstrong
BBC News
A
passenger plane lost a section of its fuselage in mid-air, forcing it to make
an emergency landing in the US state of Oregon on Friday.
The Alaska Airlines
Boeing 737 Max 9 returned to Portland 35 minutes into its flight to California
after an outer section, including a window, fell.
Alaska said 177
passengers and crew were on board and "landed safely".
The airline said it
would "temporarily" ground all 65 of its 737 Max 9 aircraft to
conduct inspections.
In a statement Alaska Airlines' CEO Ben Minicucci said: "Each
aircraft will be returned to service only after completion of full maintenance
and safety inspections."
Mr Minicucci praised
the efforts of the six crew members on board the flight which had climbed to
more than 16,000ft (4,876m) when it began its emergency descent, according to
flight tracking data.
Images sent to news outlets show the night sky visible through
the gap in the aircraft's fuselage, with insulation material and other debris
also seen.
Other pictures show
the seat closest to the affected section, a window seat that passengers said
was unoccupied, leaning forward without its cushion.
"My heart goes
out to those who were on this flight - I am so sorry for what you
experienced," Mr Minicucci said.
"I am so grateful
for the response of our pilots and flight attendants."
IMAGE SOURCE,ELIZABETH/CBS NEWS
Oxygen masks deployed
during the incident, which began at 16,000 feet shortly after take off
According to
photograph on social media of the outside of the plane, the affected area was
in the back third of the plane, behind the wing and engines.
The section of
fuselage involved appears to be an area that can be used as an additional
emergency exit door by some operators of the aircraft type, but not by Alaska.
The US Federal
Aviation Agency confirmed the Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 "returned
safely... after the crew reported a pressurisation issue".
Boeing said it was
aware of the incident and was "working to gather more information".
"A Boeing
technical team stands ready to support the investigation," it said.
National
Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) confirmed it is investigating the incident.
The Boeing 737 Max has
been described as "the most scrutinised transport aircraft in
history" after a series of safety issues and investigations.
The Max was grounded
in March 2019 for a year-and-a-half after two of the type crashed in similar
circumstances, killing those on board.
To fly again, each Max
plane underwent significant modifications, although the changes would not be
visible from the outside and passengers would not notice any difference.
More recently, Boeing
said it would increase the pace of 737 Max deliveries after resolving a supply
error that required it to conduct lengthy inspections of new planes and its
inventory, Reuters news agency reported.
About 1,300 737 Max
aircraft have been delivered to customers, Boeing data shows.
Last month, the
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) urged
airlines to inspect Max models for a possible loose bolt in
rudder control systems.
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