An Alaska Airlines 737 MAX suffered a terrifying mid-flight door plug failure, forcing an emergency landing. Looking back, pilots analyze the ATC communications and the crew’s life-saving response.

The California-bound flight had to make ... Friday when the plane’s door plug blew out as it was approximately 16,000 feet in the air. In a news release from Alaska Airlines, the airline ...

NTSB via Getty Three of the passengers on Alaska Airlines Flight ... caused the Jan. 5 incident in which a plug door on the aircraft blew out mid-flight, forcing a terrifying emergency landing.

The Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9, which was eventually involved in the flight AS1282 mid-air door plug blowout and was returned to Boeing, was being assembled at the manufacturer’s Renton assembly ...

Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board have located a door ... “plug” that suddenly blew out of a SoCal-bound Alaska Airlines flight during what officials called an ...

The move comes after the FAA grounded Max 9s following a January 5 incident in which a plug door on a Max 9 detached on an Alaska flight ... inspect the 737-900ER mid-exit door plugs to ensure ...

United Airlines and Alaska ... Sign up Flight 1282 safely returned to Portland with no serious injuries reported, though the National Transportation Safety Board said if the door plug had broken ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Before a door plug fell from Alaska Airlines Flight 1281, an advisory light came on three times in the Boeing 737 Max 9. The new plane, delivered in October 2023 ...