{"id":89076,"date":"2024-01-07T03:48:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T03:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/alaska-airlines-blowout-170-planes-grounded-after-dramatic-mid-air-incident-on-new-aircraft-stuns-aviation-experts-us-news\/"},"modified":"2024-01-07T03:48:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T03:48:10","slug":"alaska-airlines-blowout-170-planes-grounded-after-dramatic-mid-air-incident-on-new-aircraft-stuns-aviation-experts-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/alaska-airlines-blowout-170-planes-grounded-after-dramatic-mid-air-incident-on-new-aircraft-stuns-aviation-experts-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Airlines blowout: 170 planes grounded after dramatic mid-air incident on new aircraft stuns aviation experts | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More than 170 Boeing planes have been temporarily grounded after a chunk of fuselage dramatically blew out of a brand-new passenger jet in mid-air.\u00a0<\/p>\n

US regulators say immediate inspections are needed after an Alaska Airlines plane suffered a cabin emergency shortly after take-off on Friday.<\/p>\n

Photos showed a gaping hole in the side of the Boeing 737-9 MAX – and although the jet landed safely with more than 170 passengers and six crew, phones and a boy’s shirt were sucked out of the plane.<\/p>\n

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Alaska and United Airlines, which both have 737-9 MAXs in their fleets, have made dozens of cancellations and say it could be days until the planes return to service.<\/p>\n

It takes up to eight hours to inspect each aircraft, and the Federal Aviation Administration has warned more action may be taken.<\/p>\n

While no 737 MAX-9 planes are registered in the UK, the Civil Aviation Authority has asked all foreign airlines to perform inspections before flying into British airspace.<\/p>\n

The Alaska Airlines aircraft involved in Friday’s incident had entered service just eight weeks earlier – and the fuselage that blew off covered a space reserved for an extra evacuation door.<\/p>\n

While Boeing has welcomed the temporary groundings, it’s another blow for a company still trying to recover<\/strong> from two high-profile crashes that left its reputation in tatters.<\/p>\n

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Incident leaves experts stunned<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anthony Brickhouse, a professor of aerospace safety, said he was stunned that a piece of fuselage would fly off a new aircraft.<\/p>\n

And while panels have come off planes before, he couldn’t recall an incident that left passengers “looking at the lights of the city”.<\/p>\n

He added: “I can’t imagine what these passengers experienced. The wind would be rushing through that cabin.<\/p>\n

“It was probably a pretty violent situation, and definitely a scary situation.”<\/p>\n

Mr Brickhouse said it was a powerful reminder that passengers should stay buckled in throughout a flight.<\/p>\n

And David Learmount, consulting editor at Flightglobal, told Sky News: “If there were people near it who were not wearing the seatbelts, they would have disappeared.”<\/p>\n

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Passengers on board Flight 1282 – which was travelling from Portland in Oregon to Ontario in California – have been describing their ordeal.<\/p>\n

“You heard a big loud bang to the left rear. A whooshing sound and all the oxygen masks deployed instantly and everyone got those on,” Evan Smith told local media.<\/p>\n

Another passenger called Elizabeth told KGW that the incident happened about 20 minutes after take-off, in the sky three miles above Oregon.<\/p>\n

“I looked to my left, and there\u2019s just this huge gaping hole, on the left side where the window is,” she said – describing the sound of the wind as incredibly loud.<\/p>\n

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Elizabeth said passengers and crew were calm and everybody had their seatbelt on – and a recording showed the pilot also remained composed throughout.<\/p>\n

She was heard asking air traffic controllers for permission to descend to 10,000ft after the cabin depressurised, an altitude where healthy people can breathe without additional oxygen.<\/p>\n

The pilot subsequently declared an emergency and said that the plane needed to return to Portland.<\/p>\n

Alaska Airlines chief executive Ben Minicucci said: “My heart goes out to those who were on this flight – I am so sorry for what you experienced.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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