Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 from Portland to California experienced a mid-air emergency on January 5th when part of the Boeing 737 Max 9's fuselage blew off, forcing an emergency landing. In the days before, the plane's pressurization system had generated warning lights on 3 previous flights, though crews reset the system per procedure. The detached fuselage section was a "plug door" that filled the space of an emergency exit. It blew off at 16,000 feet, decompressing the cabin.
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00:02 Alaska Airlines flight 1282 from Portland to California experienced a mid-air emergency
00:07 on January 5th when part of the Boeing 737 MAX 9's fuselage blew off, forcing an emergency landing.
00:14 In the days before, the plane's pressurization system had generated warning lights on three
00:19 previous flights, though crew reset the system per procedure. The detached fuselage section was
00:25 a plug door that filled the space of an emergency exit. It blew off at 16,000 feet, decompressing
00:31 the cabin. The incident prompted the FAA to ground all Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircrafts for inspection of
00:38 similar plug doors and hardware. The NTSB is investigating that the cockpit voice recorder
00:43 was overridden due to a two-hour limit potentially hindering the probe. For all things money visit
00:48 Benzinga.com