Like the old Timex commercials: "It takes a licking and keeps on ticking!" I'll buy one.
I don't think this is an Alaskan Airlines problem really. The plane was new. The sensor warnings were just, as I understand, general pressure sensors, not associated with the door per se. So there is no real thread, just the idea that if there is a problem, the plane can descend, but needs to be close to an airport. I don't really see this decision by Alaska Air as callous, just realistic. Alaska Air I believe has the best safety record in the nation.
Plug door has been found... At 9pm.... More info to come soon. A teacher from Portland Public Schools found it.
Portland area man finds missing door ‘plug’ torn from Alaska Airlines flight in backyard
After an Alaska Airlines flight’s shocking emergency landing at Portland International Airport Friday evening, authorities and community members spent Sunday searching for parts of the missing airplane section and other debris.www.kptv.com
It was found tangled in some brush.Pic of door that was found. Its intact...
Photos, video show Alaska Airlines door plug in grass at suburban Portland home
National Transportation Safety Board officials said Sunday that the door had been found in the backyard of a Portland schoolteacher identified only as “Bob.”www.oregonlive.com
The area residents have wetlands as a backyard, but it looked pretty good from after falling 16,000 feet.
Do You mean reinforces the facts ,that they dont consider passenger safty as much as they care about the bottom lines?
They were designed for car crashes , the car seat to even keep a baby safe on a plane is non existant , the accidents while both are voilent are way different and the data to be able to even really design anything other than a pysicolodigal bandaide would be very expensive to gather and would not save babies in a crash of an airplane. If babies were just falling out of planes like they used to cars ,a strap your baby down kinda approach might be taken but I am not thinking it is a really practicle pursuit ,if it were though the safe seats would not be the same designs as the car seats because impacts would not be the same . IMO
But the car seat WOULD keep the baby IN the seat during turbulence etc. Crash survivability for aviation is far different than for land transport- of course! I'm thinking of a baby in mom's lap in the situation that just happened. For the same reason you cannot have your backpack on your lap during takeoff and landing- you should not have an unrestrained infant in your lap during those times either.
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That was my exact thought. Also Samsonite luggage that was thrown off busses by gorillas.
I'm so sorry that your husband was on this flight. I'm freaked out enough because my daughter almost was. She flew Alaska on Dec. 28th. I've already seen sick memes circulating about the door.
The memes were gross. I am thankful the phones, the door and other belongings were found by good samaritans. I just cant understand how not one person noticed the loose or lack of bolts on that door of this plane for several airlines. I assumed inspection was done before flight and in between flights.
One would hope so. I have a friend whose husband is a mechanic at SFO. I don't understand how they can "re-purpose" a door that was previously designed as an emergency door.
Fair point. I agree .
Don’t forget about the Southwest passenger who died after being partially sucked out of the window in 2018.
