Brand new Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max suffers mid-air window BLOW-OUT

Daily Mail ^ | January 5, 2024 | ALICE WRIGHT

[hiho hiho]

An Alaska Airlines flight from Portland, Oregon to Ontario, California was forced to make an emergency landing back at Portland Airport less than an hour after takeoff after suffering depressurization.

Alaska flight 1282 left Portland just after 5pm local time on Friday when a window blew out at 16,000 feet, ripping a child's shirt off and sucking passengers phones out of the plane.

The Boeing 737-9 MAX rolled off the assembly line just two months ago, receiving its certification in November 2023, according to FAA record posted online.

[ltc8k6]

The door itself appears to be neatly removed with no other fuselage damage. It looks as though the door was not latched when it departed. This is a decommissioned emergency exit door door with a panel covering it inside the cabin to prevent it being used. It’s almost as if they forgot to latch it fully when they decommissioned it.

The side of the plane basically looks like it would look if someone opened the emergency exit.

[DownInFlames]

Seat was empty.

[llevrok]

Boeing took over McDonnell Douglas, but the financial mentality of McD took over Boeing.

Sounds familiar. I worked for a large company that purchased a smaller one. The smaller one was thought to be better run financially. Their "culture" was made dominant. As we used to say, they bought us with our dollars.

And by the way, the company ended up selling off 80% of it's manufacturing. It is a shell of itself.

[linMcHlp]

Explanation of the Boeing 737 -900 MAX emergency exit door. It is a “plug” -type but dynamic. The door hinges downward on the outside of the aircraft:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw4eQGAmXQ0

[EVO X]

Thanks for the link. Wow, just 4 bolts secure the outward opening door plug in place.

[Reverend Wright]

Large scale implementation of these moves is why the economies of the West are in the state they are in.

[minnesota_bound]

Safety.... pffft!

The guy installing the door panel must have thought it was a press fit....

Or it was near quitting time for that shift and they had just placed the panel in then left for the day and the next shift guy painted over the area....