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MISSING DOOR PLUG THAT DETACHED FROM ALASKA AIRLINES PLANE FOUND IN OREGON
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INVESTIGATORS WILL EXAMINE THE PLUG, WHICH WEIGHS 63 POUNDS, FOR SIGNS OF HOW IT
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The National Transportation Safety Board gave an update about the door plug that
blew off during a midflight incident on a Boeing 737 Max 9 plane.

The lost door plug of a Boeing jetliner that suffered an inflight blowout over
Oregon was found Sunday in a backyard near Portland by a school teacher,
officials said.

National Transportation Safety Chair Jennifer Homendy made the announcement at a
news conference Sunday, saying the teacher, only identified as Bob, discovered
it in his backyard and sent two photos to the safety board.

"Thank you, Bob," Homendy added.

Investigators will examine the plug, which is 26 by 48 inches (66 by 121
centimeters) and weighs 63 pounds (28.5 kilograms), for signs of how it broke
free.

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Homenday also revealed Alaska Airlines had restricted the aircraft from long
flights over water so the plane “could return very quickly to an airport” after
a warning light that could have indicated a pressurization problem lit up on
three different flights.

Homendy cautioned that the pressurization light might be unrelated to Friday’s
incident in which a plug covering an unused exit door blew off the Boeing 737
Max 9 as it cruised about three miles (4.8 kilometers) over Oregon.


An Alaska Airlines flight from Oregon to Southern California made an emergency
landing Friday after a piece of the side of the plane detached mid-air.

The warning light came on during three previous flights: on Dec. 7, Jan. 3 and
Jan. 4 — the day before the door plug broke off. Homendy said she didn’t have
all the details regarding the Dec. 7 incident but specified the light came on
during a flight on Jan. 3 and on Jan. 4 after the plane had landed.

Investigators will not have the benefit of hearing what was going on in the
cockpit during the flight. The cockpit voice recorder — one of two so-called
black boxes — recorded over the flight's sounds after two hours, Homendy said.

The plane made it back to Portland, however, and none of the 171 passengers and
six crew members was seriously injured.

Hours after the incident, the FAA ordered the grounding of 171 of the 218 Max 9s
in operation, including all those used by Alaska Airlines and United Airlines,
until they can be inspected. The airlines were still waiting Sunday for details
about how to do the inspections.

Alaska Airlines, which has 65 Max 9s, and United, with 79, are the only U.S.
airlines to fly that particular model of Boeing’s workhorse 737. United said it
was waiting for Boeing to issue a “multi-operator message,” which is a service
bulletin used when multiple airlines need to perform similar work on a
particular type of plane.

Boeing was working on the bulletin but had not yet submitted it to the FAA for
review and approval, according to a person familiar with the situation.
Producing a detailed, technical bulletin frequently takes a couple days, said
the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe a matter that the
company and regulators have not publicly discussed.

Boeing declined to comment.


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‘HIS SHIRT WAS SUCKED OUT.' ALASKA AIRLINES PASSENGERS RECALL ROUGH RIDE AFTER
SIDE PANEL BREAKS OFF MIDFLIGHT

Without some of their planes, cancellations began to mount at the two carriers.
Alaska Airlines said it canceled 170 flights — more than one-fifth of its
schedule — by mid-afternoon on the West Coast because of the groundings, while
United had scrapped about 180 flights while salvaging others by finding
different planes.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington, chair of the Senate’s
Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, said she agreed with the
decision to ground the Max 9s.

“Aviation production has to meet a gold standard, including quality control
inspections and strong FAA oversight,” she said in a statement.

Before the discovery of the missing plug, the NTSB had pleaded with residents in
an area west of Portland called Cedar Hills to be on the lookout for the object.

On Sunday, people scoured dense thickets wedged between busy roads and a light
rail train station. Adam Pirkle said he rode 14 miles (22 kilometers) through
the overgrowth on his bicycle.

“I’ve been looking at the flight track, I was looking at the winds,” he said.
“I’ve been trying to focus on wooded areas.”

Before the school teacher found the missing door plug, searchers located two
cell phones that appeared to have belonged to passengers on Friday’s terrifying
flight. One was discovered in a yard, the other on the side of a road. Both were
turned over to the NTSB, which vowed to return them to their owners.

Alaska Airlines flight 1282 took off from Portland at 5:07 p.m. Friday for a
two-hour trip to Ontario, California. About six minutes later, the chunk of
fuselage blew out as the plane was climbing at about 16,000 feet (4.8
kilometers).


National Transportation Safety Board officials provide details about their
investigation into the midflight incident on a Boeing 737 Max 9 plane.

One of the pilots declared an emergency and asked for clearance to descend to
10,000 feet (3 kilometers), where the air would be rich enough for passengers to
breathe without oxygen masks.

Videos posted online by passengers showed a gaping hole where the paneled-over
door had been. They applauded when the plane landed safely about 13 minutes
after the blowout. Firefighters came down the aisle, asking passengers to remain
in their seats as they treated the injured.

It was extremely lucky that the airplane had not yet reached cruising altitude,
when passengers and flight attendants might be walking around the cabin, Homendy
said.

The aircraft involved rolled off the assembly line and received its
certification two months ago, according to online FAA records. It had been on
145 flights since entering commercial service Nov. 11, said FlightRadar24,
another tracking service. The flight from Portland was the aircraft’s third of
the day.

The Max is the newest version of Boeing’s venerable 737, a twin-engine,
single-aisle plane frequently used on U.S. domestic flights. The plane went into
service in May 2017.

Two Max 8 jets crashed in 2018 and 2019, killing 346 people. All Max 8 and Max 9
planes were grounded worldwide for nearly two years until Boeing made changes to
an automated flight control system implicated in the crashes.

The Max has been plagued by other issues, including manufacturing flaws, concern
about overheating that led FAA to tell pilots to limit use of an anti-ice
system, and a possible loose bolt in the rudder system.

___

Koenig reported from Dallas. Bohrer reported from Juneau, Alaska. Associated
Press reporters Terry Spencer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Audrey McAvoy in
Honolulu, Hawaii, contributed.

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