The Federal Aviation Administration temporarily grounded “certain Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft” on Saturday, after a plug door on one of the planes became detached and blew off during an Alaska Airlines flight from Portland, Ore. to Ontario, Calif. The plane was forced to return to Portland and make an emergency landing on Friday evening. No serious injuries were reported, according to Port of Portland’s media team. Alaska Airlines announced the grounding of its Boeing 737-9 aircrafts hours after the incident.
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00:10 >> Seattle, Alaska, we just had a crash, we're in a decline emergency,
00:28 we're down to 10,000.
00:30 We just depressurized, we're gonna maintain 10,000, and
00:34 we need to return back to Portland.
00:36 >> Portland, Alaska, 1282, emergency aircraft,
00:39 we're now leveling 12,000 and a left turn heading 340.
00:42 >> 1282, call and approach, good afternoon, you still have information, do you?
00:46 >> Yeah, we do have information, do we?
00:47 We'd like to get lower if possible.
00:49 >> 1282, just gonna maintain 7,000.
00:52 Alaska, 1282, did you fire, did they fire an emergency or
00:54 did you need to return to?
00:56 >> Yes, we are emergency, we are depressurized, but we do need to return back to.
01:00 We have 177 passengers, we're at 18, 8.
01:04 >> [INAUDIBLE] The emergency aircraft will be the next arrival,
01:07 they are on a two mile final, and you can expect access to the runway after they land.
01:12 >> The cockpit door flew open immediately, and at this point,
01:16 the flight attendant in the forward portion of the aircraft was standing.
01:22 And the cockpit door flew open, hit the laboratory door,
01:28 that door, the laboratory door got stuck.
01:34 She was very concerned that was somebody in there, there was no one in there,
01:39 but that was stuck, and she did attempt to shut the door three times.
01:47 It did eventually shut, but it did blow open during the explosive decompression.
01:54 They heard a bang, they hear a bang, they immediately put on their oxygen masks.
02:01 At the time there is a bang, the door flies open.
02:08 There is a quick reference checklist that's laminated in front of them.
02:16 This is not the quick reference handbook, that is to the right side of the captain,
02:24 but the checklist, the laminated checklist flies out the door.
02:28 But I do want to emphasize that the actions of the flight crew were really incredible.
02:34 I imagine, and just from talking with everyone who was part of the interviews,
02:44 it was described as chaos, very loud between the air and everything going on around them.
02:56 And it was very violent when the rapid decompression and the door was expelled out of the plane.
03:08 So there was a lot going on, and I just really want to thank the actions of the flight crew.
03:16 That was equally heroic. Just the flight crew entirely did an excellent job.
03:22 The cockpit voice recorder was completely overwritten.
03:26 There is nothing on the cockpit voice recorder.
03:30 Of the door plug, Ann said he found it in his backyard.
03:36 Thank you, Bob. Please, I will reach out to you so that I can thank you myself.
03:45 Can I narrow down where it landed?
03:49 I can say that Bob is a school teacher in Portland.
03:57 Portland.