La porte d'un avion d'Alaska Airlines qui s'est détachée du fuselage peu après le décollage vendredi a été retrouvée, ont annoncé les autorités aéronautiques américaines, ce qui devrait aider à comprendre la cause de cet incident très rare qui a conduit à immobiliser au sol des Boeing 737 MAX 9 et à annuler des dizaines de vols dans le monde.
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00:00 The door of an Alaska Airlines plane that detached from the fuselage shortly after takeoff
00:04 was found on Friday, the American aeronautical authorities announced, which should help
00:09 understand the cause of this very rare incident that led to the immobilization of the Boeing
00:13 737 MAX 9 and the cancellation of dozens of flights around the world.
00:17 "I am happy to announce that we have found the door panel," said during a
00:21 press conference Jennifer O'Mandy, president of the US Agency for Transport Security,
00:27 the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), who sent a team to investigate the
00:32 reasons for the incident.
00:33 A teacher found the panel in his garden in Portland, Oregon.
00:39 He took a picture.
00:41 "On the pictures, I can only see the outside of the door panel, the white parts.
00:46 We don't see anything else, but we're going to go get it and start analyzing it,"
00:51 said the NTSB chief.
00:53 Friday, around 6.30 p.m. (GMT-Saturday 2.30 p.m.), shortly after the takeoff of an Alaska
00:59 Airlines flight from Portland International Airport, Oregon, Northwest, a door opened
01:04 and detached from the fuselage in mid-flight, according to the NTSB.
01:07 It is a door condemned and masked by a lock that only allows a window to appear,
01:12 said the NTSB, a configuration proposed by Boeing to the client who asked for it.
01:17 These models have the door of the middle closed, according to the directive of the Federal
01:21 Aviation Administration (FA) published on its website.
01:25 The aircraft, which carried 171 passengers and six crew members, was then at nearly
01:31 5,000 meters above sea level.
01:33 The plane quickly returned to Portland and the incident only caused a few minor injuries.
01:37 "It was really brutal.
01:39 Barely at altitude, the facade of the window detached, "a passenger of the flight, Kyle
01:46 Rinker, on the American channel CNN.
01:48 "Terrifying incident.
01:50 "According to the NTSB, no one was sitting in the two seats next to the lock that flew
01:55 away.
01:56 "But according to passengers cited by the Daily Portland, The Oregonian, a teenager
02:00 sitting in the row had his shirt torn by the decompression, causing him minor injuries
02:05 .
02:06 "After this very rare malfunction, the FA has required immediate inspections of some
02:11 Boeing 737 MAX 9 before it can resume flight, as regards 171 aircraft in the world,
02:17 "said X, ex-Twitter.
02:20 "As a result, airlines and security agencies around the world have immobilized some
02:25 Boeing 737 MAX 9 in the inspection tent, and dozens of flights have been canceled.
02:30 "Thus, United Airlines, which owns the most important 737A9 fleet in the world, announced
02:37 to the AFP the COSOL 46 aircraft, 33 having already been examined.
02:41 "Alaska Airlines said on Saturday on X, ex-Twitter, that after inspecting more than a quarter of
02:47 its fleet of 65 737 MAX 9 aircraft, it had not yet found any worrying elements.
02:53 "Aeromexico, Copa Airlines, which owns 21 of these aircraft, and Turkish Airlines, which
03:00 owns five, have also announced that they have nailed their aircraft to the ground for verification.
03:04 "On the other hand, the European Air Safety Agency (EASA) has indicated that no operator
03:10 in Europe uses the 737 MAX 9 with the technical options concerned.
03:14 "We are very, very lucky that it did not end more tragically,"
03:20 the president of the NTSB said in the press, while the US Secretary of Transport Pete
03:25 Buttigieg spoke of a "terrifying incident" on X.