Last January, Shandy Brewer boarded an Alaska Airlines flight from Portland, Ore., to Ontario, Calif., en route to her grandmother’s birthday celebration.
Brewer and the other passengers heard a loud bang.
She couldn’t see that 15 rows behind her one of the plane’s doors had blown off, exposing passengers to open air at 16,000 feet.
Brewer, now 30: “People say, ‘Nobody died on this flight’ — but we could have.” Ms.
On the Fourth of July, the sound of fireworks made her feel “extreme panic,” and she had to hide indoors.
Persons:
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Organizations:
Alaska Airlines, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine
Locations:
Portland ,, Ontario, Calif, Oregon, barreling, United States