Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max Accident: Door Ripped Off Midair – No Injuries but Terrifying Experience for Passengers

2024-01-06 21:59:38
On the followingnoon of the 5th (local time), an accident occurred in which part of the fuselage of a passenger plane heading from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California, was damaged. Fortunately, there were no casualties, but all passengers were terrified. /yunhap news

An accident occurred on the night of the 5th (local time) when part of the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines plane heading from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California, was torn off in the air. No one was injured, but the passengers and crew were all terrified. U.S. aviation authorities ordered a temporary suspension of Boeing 737 Max aircraft operations, the same model as the plane in which the accident occurred.

According to Archyde.com on the 6th (local time), Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, a Boeing 737 Max passenger plane that took off from Portland International Airport at 5 p.m. the previous day, suddenly broke apart when it reached an altitude of regarding 4,880 meters above the ground following takeoff. There were 171 passengers and 6 crew members on this plane. In this accident, the passengers wore oxygen masks and the plane made an emergency landing. Fortunately, no one was injured. However, according to foreign media, some of the passengers’ cell phones and clothes flew into the damaged hole.

Alaska Airlines accident with door ripped off in midair / Capture from X (old Twitter)

Passengers told the New York Times and CNN, “As soon as we reached flight altitude, the door was torn off,” and “The side of the plane suddenly disappeared and we suffered from fear that we might die.” The plane returned to Portland Airport regarding 20 minutes following departure and made an emergency landing. Alaska Airlines said that the plane was shipped and certified in November of last year and has flown 145 times so far. The 737 Max crashed twice in 2018 and 2019, killing a total of 346 people, and flights around the world were halted for 20 months.

Meanwhile, the Federal Aviation Administration announced that it would temporarily suspend passenger flights of the same type operated by U.S. airlines or flying on U.S. territory. The Federal Aviation Administration said, “All passenger aircraft will be inspected before resuming operations.” The inspection is said to take up to 8 hours per passenger aircraft. A total of 170 passenger aircraft are subject to inspection.

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