Warning light came on 3 times before plane wall blew out
Before a door plug fell from Alaska Airlines Flight 1281, an advisory light came on three times in the Boeing 737 Max 9. The new plane, delivered in October 2023, was checked and cleared after each pressurization warning.
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00:20 >> Seattle, Alaska, 1282, we just had a crash,
00:23 we're in decline of emergency, we need to send down 10,000.
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00:34 I didn't even know we took off, honestly.
00:36 And then, yeah, I'm sleeping and I just feel the plane drop.
00:40 And it wasn't like any other turbulence just because the masks I came down to.
00:44 So that's when I knew, gosh, this is something way different.
00:48 And yeah, I started freaking out.
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01:38 In the moment, a lot of tears, I just didn't know what was going on.
01:41 But a thing I will say is I feel that a lot of people around me were a lot calmer
01:45 than I would have thought for a situation like this.
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