The United States federal administration made an emergency call to the citizens of Oregon. He urged your collaboration to find the door of the Boeing 737 Max 9 that flew into the air, as it was, in mid-flight last Friday and forced it to make an emergency landing 20 minutes after takeoff.
Jennifer Homendy, chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), held a press conference on Sunday night in which she explained that the investigation had not yet found the cause that caused this detachment in an almost brand new plane (she received authorization in November) and once again underlined the fortunate nature of the case. The problem was resolved with a completely safe return to the starting point, at the Portland airport, without any of the 174 passengers and six crew members suffering any damage, except for a few scratches and a scare that they will never forget: they looked out at the abyss.
Just at the end of his appearance, Homendy said “by the way” and then revealed that they had managed to recover the detached part of the device, a piece considered key to determining what happened and what caused the loss of that part. of the cabin. A resident of a residential area of ??the city in the state of Oregon heard the warning and sent a couple of photographs of that door, which had fallen in his garden. It was the part he was searching for.
Homendy did not want to go into details. He simply commented that the discovery was made by a schoolteacher whom he only identified as Bo. “Thank you very much, Bob,” when recounting this news.
That door came off a few minutes after takeoff, when the plane was at about 5,000 meters above sea level. That the adjacent seats were empty and that the cruising altitude had not yet been reached, practically double what the plane was at then, are the elements of fortune that worked in favor of this incident not ending in a tragedy, he insisted. Homendy.
According to witnesses, there was a very loud sound and, suddenly, a jet of cold air began to enter. There was darkness and lights were visible in the background. The woman and her son who were sitting in the closest part were able to be evacuated by the attendants of Alaska Airlines (AA) flight 1282, bound for Ontario, California. Some claimed that the boy lost his shirt and suffered skin irritation.
The next day, the company grounded the 65 aircraft of this model that it has in service to undergo a thorough review. Shortly afterwards, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered that another 171 aircraft belonging to US airlines or those operating in the US will not be used.
The alert was due to the fact that there are a couple of recent and serious precedents. In a few months, between 2018 and 2019, two new generation Max 8 aircraft, from the companies Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines, suffered two accidents in which 346 people lost their lives. That led to the anchoring of that model throughout the world until, much later, it was determined that they could return to the sky.
Other countries, such as the European Union or India, have established reviews. The impact of the AA incident had a huge impact on Boeing’s price when the stock markets opened this Monday. Meanwhile, hundreds of flights had to be delayed or canceled in the United States. More than 25,000 passengers faced the consequences, although the effect was lessened because only two companies, the aforementioned AA and United Airlines, currently have the Max 9 in service to a significant extent.
