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Old 24th Mar 2024, 01:16
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Originally Posted by GregAmy
Passengers onboard terrifying midair door blowout Alaska Airlines flight told they may be ‘victim of a crime’

The FBI has contacted passengers on the Alaska Airlines flight on which a door panel blew off at 16,000 feet to tell them that they might be a “possible victim of a crime.”

The agency’s Seattle bureau sent a letter Tuesday confirming to passengers that it has opened a criminal investigation into the Jan. 5 blowout on the Boeing 737 MAX flight, according to the Seattle Times.

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https://nypost.com/2024/03/22/us-new...im-of-a-crime/
If someone wanted to stifle the investigation into what happened and why, I can't think of a better way to do it than this. It's pretty much guaranteed to make everyone involved 'lawyer up' (i.e. refuse to say anything).
One of the dumbest things they could have done if they really want to find out what went wrong and what to do to fix it.
Someone is playing politics, and damn the consequences.
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