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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:07:38 PM EDT
PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - An Alaska Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing at Portland International Airport on Friday night after a large window section of the aircraft blew out in mid-air, according to several passengers.
Dramatic photos sent to us by a passenger on the plane, who wished to remain anonymous, show a large section of the airplane's fuselage missing.  Other passengers said the flight was headed from PDX to Ontario, California. It departed Portland at 4:40 p.m. and was back in Portland around 5:30 p.m. One passenger reported that the extreme depressurization caused a child's shirt to be ripped off. It was not clear if anyone on board the flight was injured.  FOX 12 has reached out to the FAA, Alaska Airlines and the airport for more information. This story will be updated as more information becomes available. https://www.kptv.com/2024/01/06/plane-window-blows-out-mid-air-makes-emergency-landing-portland-airport/ |
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:10:19 PM EDT
[#1]
That was a lot more than a window.
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:12:02 PM EDT
[#2]
I'm surprised none of those seats have shit in them.
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:12:24 PM EDT
[#3]
That was a moment in someone's life.
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:13:22 PM EDT
[#4]
He's waiting for his phone to finish charging.
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:13:40 PM EDT
[#5]
Ho
Lee Crap That would suck! |
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:14:40 PM EDT
[#6]
Keep your belts fastened
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:15:14 PM EDT
[#7]
Holy shit!
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:15:33 PM EDT
[#8]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That was a lot more than a window. Yeah, I was picturing a small window, like the one that failed on the plane they had been using for a movie prop. That looks like an entire DOOR is missing!
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:15:53 PM EDT
[#9]
Thatll wake you up
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:16:04 PM EDT
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Keep your belts fastened |
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:16:23 PM EDT
[#11]
Wow, I flew Alaska Air to Orlando Florida Tuesday morning, it was a great flight. Returning on Monday. That would freak me out.
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:16:52 PM EDT
[#12]
Wow.
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:16:55 PM EDT
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I just realized the seat closest to the window is half gone. If someone was in it, they might be gone too. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Keep your belts fastened It appears to be the cushion on the seat back that's gone. |
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:17:00 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:17:32 PM EDT
[#15]
“Sir, you must remain in your seat until we land!!”
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:18:05 PM EDT
[#16]
It appears that the bags on the O2 masks indeed did not inflate.
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:18:47 PM EDT
[#17]
Airline mechanics, what are we looking at?
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:20:36 PM EDT
[#18]
That's a 737-900 right? I wonder if that was one of the emergency egress windows that somehow failed?
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:21:49 PM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Airline mechanics, what are we looking at? That would be a hole. |
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:22:40 PM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That's a 737-900 right? I wonder if that was one of the emergency egress windows that somehow failed? |
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:25:21 PM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Keep your belts fastened |
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:25:44 PM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Based on the spacing of the remaining windows, leg room in that isle, and huge hole, I would say that is an emergency exit. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: That's a 737-900 right? I wonder if that was one of the emergency egress windows that somehow failed? Yeppers, 737-800/900  Attached File |
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:26:03 PM EDT
[#23]
Brand new plane too.
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:26:05 PM EDT
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Based on the spacing of the remaining windows, leg room in that isle, and huge hole, I would say that is an emergency exit. The ones over the wing are paired so I think that's probably the one further back by the tail. |
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:27:08 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It appears that the bags on the O2 masks indeed did not inflate. Speaking out of my butt here, but there is only like 10 mins of oxygen for those masks. |
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:28:01 PM EDT
[#26]
 Attached FileThat "hole" matches up rather suspiciously with the emergency exit towards the tail. The one about 9 windows back from the wing. |
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:30:40 PM EDT
[#27]
And that, is why I keep my belt on while seated while the plane is in motion.
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:30:57 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:31:12 PM EDT
[#29]
Holy fuck. I fly Alaska exclusively, that's bad juju.
I wonder if that door will turn up somewhere. |
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:33:47 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: That's a 737-900 right? I wonder if that was one of the emergency egress windows that somehow failed? Yeppers, 737-800/900 https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/136710/IMG_5517_jpeg-3083521.JPG Not quite, it's a 737 Max 9. That does appear to be the exit row aft of the wing.  Attached File |
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:35:18 PM EDT
[#31]
Earth tones in the whitey titeys
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:37:27 PM EDT
[#32]
Bet they never ask for the window seat when flying in the future
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:39:31 PM EDT
[#33]
How cool would it be to stick your arm out and play airplane by tilting your hand?
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:40:35 PM EDT
[#34]
Video from in flight
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:41:39 PM EDT
[#35]
That row of seats should be removed anyway
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:41:58 PM EDT
[#36]
Looks like the leather and head cushion got ripped off the seat too.
I wonder if it was something as simple as the person sitting in that seat playing with the door. |
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:42:20 PM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It appears that the bags on the O2 masks indeed did not inflate. |
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:43:16 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: How cool would it be to stick your arm out and play airplane by tilting your hand? |
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:43:30 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:45:18 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: How cool would it be to stick your arm out and play airplane by tilting your hand? I've already had enough fractures, thank you. Well, not all the fractures I'm going to have, just that I'd like to reserve future fractures for less foreseeable circumstances. |
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:46:00 PM EDT
[#41]
If its a Boeing, I ain't going.
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:46:49 PM EDT
[#42]
Boeing? Out the window you're going!
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:47:10 PM EDT
[#43]
I thought those things opened inward.
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:48:04 PM EDT
[#44]
Well, that sucks.
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:48:45 PM EDT
[#45]
There'd be about what, a ~3psi differential when the door liberated?
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:50:15 PM EDT
[#46]
Crap, my son flew Newark to SFO yesterday on an Alaska Air Max 9.
Quoted: Speaking out of my butt here, but there is only like 10 mins of oxygen for those masks. I’m not a pilot but I’m guessing that once part of the plane falls off it won’t take them 10 minutes to bring the plane down to a level that you can breath unassisted. |
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:51:18 PM EDT
[#47]
Things can always be worse
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:51:25 PM EDT
[#48]
one dupe posted at 10:08, one at 10:07
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:51:27 PM EDT
[#49]
So it's not an emergency exit door, it's a plug door?
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Posted: 1/5/2024 11:51:57 PM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I thought those things opened inward. The earlier generation doors, yes. The newer emergency door designs open outward - but they have flight locks, and probably operating handles that are bound in place by differential cabin pressure to prohibit easy activation. |
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