737 Max 9 Alaska Airlines fleet grounded
 

I'll never fly any of these 737 Max series and refuse any booking from clients or agencies involving companies flying these planes.

Only Alaska Airlines have grounded their fleet according to reports.

Yes, as stated in my thread title.

I take it you don’t fly at all then?

:) I fly a lot (at least 5 times/month). Never ever on any 737 Max. Granted : that makes things sometimes complicated, as I'm forced to catch connecting flights here and there to avoid some direct routes involving the Max.

This was a deactivated emergency exit - see: theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatches/alaska-737-max-9-that-lost-deactivated-exit
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145 sectors since manufacture is reported. Yanks taking planned obsolescence too far?

Thankfully the airlines I use are Airbus fleet either entirely or in the main.

No chance I’d get on a Max at this stage. It’s quite ridiculous how many incidents there have been.

I apologise for an inability to read. Sorry.

Indeed. Glad to read that.

You're welcome.

To be fair, the thread title doesn't explicitly exclude the possibility of other airlines also grounding their Max 9s - otherwise it would presumably have said only Alaska Airlines. :O

looks like this was an emergency exit according to latest news

Given the relative youth of this airframe, only a few months after manufacture, and the previous problems withthe recent 737 series, this does cast some doubt on Boeing's build quality and inspection/supervision during build.

Like the OP, I'd be very reluctant to use this machine until further information becomes available.

emergency door
 

looks like and have heard on tv news that blew out

A seat went outside, luckily unoccupied. I can’t believe the FAA hasn’t mandated the immediate grounding of all of the maxs.

Well, no reason to ground any MAX-8. -9 and -8200s have the additional emergency exit door, which for most -9 operators is covered from the inside. And unuseable a an exit. However what happened here to a plug type door needs to be found out. Boeing unfortunately have issues stacked against them. Need a new Multi Operator Message, SB or perhaps AD?
Another issue that will delay the -10?

This event has already got a thread here.
https://www.pprune.org/accidents-clo...t-out-pdx.html
The grounding is covered in that thread.