Originally Posted by
JohnnyRocket
An Alaska Airlines flight from Portland, Oregon to Ontario, California was forced to make an emergency landing after suffering depressurization after takeoff.
Alaska flight 1282 left Portland just after 5pm local time on Friday when a window blew out at 16,000 feet, ripping a child's shirt off.
The Boeing 737-9 MAX rolled off the assembly line just two months ago, receiving its certification in November 2023, according to FAA record posted online.
How could this happen? I thought they were plug doors that open inwards...
Footage from inside the cabin... you can see the lights of Portland below!
https://www.tiktok.com/@strawberr.vy...393710?lang=en
One Twitter user suggesting that the door is actually deactivated for carriers such as Alaska and not used - therefore anyone sitting there would not have even known that it was a door of sorts.
https://twitter.com/jonostrower/stat...66899869147549
Not an expert but it looks like a door from the outside, have they just stuck a panel over it internally? Online seatmaps for the Alaskan 737 Max 9 don't show a door here so this appears correct.