A Boeing 737 Max 9 flight had to return to Portland International Airport after a panel used to plug an exit door blew out mid-flight. The incident caused a loss of pressurized cabin air and passenger Kendra Frome’s 3-year-old daughter questioned if they were on a Boeing plane due to her previous anxieties about flying on Boeing aircraft after another incident.
This photo released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows the door plug from Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, in Portland, Ore. A panel used to plug an area reserved for an exit door on the Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner blew out Jan. 5, shortly after the flight took off from Portland, forcing the plane to return to Portland International Airport.
(National Transportation Safety Board via AP) Soon after Kendra Frome’s plane landed — no incidents and all parts intact, this time — her 3-year-old daughter turned to her with panicked eyes. Amid the shuffle of unsuspecting travelers crowding into the aisles, the girl asked her mom if they were on a Boeing plane. Yes, the mother of three replied.Eavesdropping passengers might have dismissed the little girl’s question, chalking it up to a child’s babble from something she overheard on TV news. They couldn’t know she had been on a “broken” plane: Twenty minutes into that flight to Ontario, California, a panel had blown out of the 737 Max 9 as it climbed out of Portland, Oregon. Pressurized cabin air had rushed through a gaping hole in the plane at 16,000 feet, 1,600 feet higher than Mount Rainier. Had they been at cruising altitude around 30,000 to 40,000 feet,Frome’s daughter has asked the same questions each time her family flies: Is this a Boeing plane, and is this one going to break? “In addition to dealing with my own nervousness and anxiety of getting on a plane, I have to also help” my children, Frome said. “For several days leading up, I say, ‘It’s going to be OK. We’re going to be OK. It’s a different type of plane. It’s not the same plane that broke.’”, Frome, her children and the 167 other Alaska Flight 1282 passengers are statistical anomalies — the rare examples of what can go terribly wrong when usually everything goes right., intense media interes
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