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10 sty 2024 · Passenger video during the emergency landing is harrowing, showing oxygen masks deployed and a gaping hole as the plane descended shortly after taking off. The piece that flew off was a door plug that takes the place of an emergency exit door required for some planes based on capacity.
8 sty 2024 · Flight 1282 took off from Portland International Airport just before 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 5, but while it was at 16,000 feet during its initial takeoff, the door plug blew out of the...
8 sty 2024 · 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.
8 sty 2024 · The FAA's Emergency Airworthiness Directive, which is impacting about 171 planes worldwide, came after a paneled-over exit door on an Alaska Airlines plane blew out mid-flight on Friday...
8 sty 2024 · New details are emerging on the plane’s detached fuselage “plug door” and its components as both Alaska and United Airlines say they found loose hardware on a number of their Boeing 737 Max...
9 sty 2024 · As federal investigators seek answers into how a door plug detached from the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines aircraft prompting a midair emergency and the temporary national grounding of...
9 sty 2024 · Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board have located a door “plug” that suddenly blew out of a SoCal-bound Alaska Airlines flight during what officials called an explosive...