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CNN —A United Airlines flight was forced to return to Sydney just two hours into its nearly 14-hour journey to San Francisco, in the carrier’s fifth flight incident in seven days. The Boeing 777-300 aircraft, carrying 183 passengers and crew, was redirected due to a “maintenance issue,” according to a statement from United Airlines. We provided accommodation overnight for passengers and rebooked them to San Francisco,” the airline added. The incident Monday on United flight 830 is the latest in a string of incidents to hit the US airline in recent days. US aircraft manufacturer Boeing is also under intense scrutiny following a series of quality and safety issues.

Organizations: CNN, United Airlines, Boeing, United, United Airlines aircraft, US Locations: Sydney, San Francisco, Mexico City, Los Angeles

☆ LATAM Airlines: Passengers recall mid-air drop of flight
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Cristopher Ulloa | Marlon Sorto | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A group of passengers on board a LATAM Airlines flight that experienced a mid-air drop while traveling to New Zealand arrived in Chile on Tuesday, with two of them speaking to a CNN team at Santiago International Airport. “The experience was horrible,” said Chilean resident Verónica Martínez, who was on flight LAN800 from Australia to New Zealand on Monday. She described that moment as being on a “roller coaster.”Dozens of people were injured after LATAM Airlines flight 800 from Sydney, Australia to Auckland, New Zealand experienced a “technical event” on Monday that produced a sudden movement, the flight operator reported. A team of Chilean aviation authorities has been sent to Auckland to investigate the incident, Chile’s Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC) said on Tuesday. The affected passengers and cabin crew “received immediate assistance and were evaluated or treated by medical staff at the airport as needed,” LATAM Airlines said in a statement to CNN.

Persons: ”, Verónica Martínez, –, ” Martínez, Diego Valenzuela, Valenzuela, Hato Hone, Hato Hone St John, “ Organizations: CNN, LATAM Airlines, Santiago International, New Zealand, Chile’s, Civil Aeronautics, Hato, Hato Hone St, Hato Hone St John Ambulance Locations: New Zealand, Chile, Australia, New, Sydney, Auckland , New Zealand, Santiago from Auckland, Auckland

☆ United Airlines plane makes emergency landing in Los Angeles due hydraulics issue
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Rebekah Riess | Gregory Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —A United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Mexico City was diverted to Los Angeles Friday after an issue with the plane’s hydraulic system, the airline said. It was the carrier’s fourth emergency in a week, including a tire falling off one flight and an engine catching fire on another. The Airbus 320, carrying 105 passengers and five crew members, landed safely and everyone disembarked at a gate, according to United and the Federal Aviation Administration. Customers were flown to Mexico City International Airport on a different aircraft, according to the airline. The Airbus 320 is equipped with three hydraulic systems for “redundancy purposes” and preliminary information showed the issue affected only one of those systems, according to United.

Persons: CNN Friday’s, ” United, “, CNN’s Ray Sanchez Organizations: CNN, United Airlines, Los Angeles, Airbus, Federal Aviation Administration, Customers, Mexico City International, FAA, . United Airlines, NTSB Locations: San Francisco, Mexico City, Los, Mexico

HOUSTON (AP) — A United flight from Houston to Fort Myers, Texas, was forced turn around Monday after one of the plane’s engines caught fire. The plane landed back at Bush Airport at 7:13 p.m., just 33 minutes after takeoff. The plane with engine trouble is scheduled to depart Bush Airport for Orlando at 7:20 a.m. Thursday. “United flight 1118 returned to Houston shortly after takeoff due to an engine issue. We arranged for a new aircraft to take our customers to their destination, which departed for Fort Myers later that evening,” the airline said in a statement.

Persons: “, ”, David Gruninger, ” Gruninger, KTRK, Fort Myers Organizations: HOUSTON, Boeing, George Bush, Airport, Bush Airport, ” United, Bush, Orlando, Fort Locations: Houston, Fort Myers , Texas, Florida, Mexico, Fort

☆ NTSB probing ‘stuck’ control incident on Boeing 737 Max
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-07 | by ( Pete Muntean | Gregory Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Boeing is now party to a new federal investigation involving a 737 Max after United Airlines pilots reported that part of the flight controls became jammed as they landed in Newark last month. The investigation is the latest to involve a nearly-new Boeing 737 Max aircraft following the door plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 on January 5. The NTSB says in this latest incident, the 737 Max 8 was delivered from Boeing to United Airlines in February 2023. We’ll continue to work with Boeing, the NTSB and the FAA on next steps for these aircraft,” United said in a statement. “We worked closely with United Airlines to diagnose the rudder response issue,” Boeing said in a statement.

Persons: “, ‘, Max, We’ll, ” United, ” Organizations: CNN, Boeing, Max, United Airlines, National Transportation Safety, NTSB, Alaska Airlines, Collins Aerospace, FAA, ”, ” Boeing, United Locations: Newark, United

☆ MH370 investigation: 10 years on, is the world any closer to finding Malaysia Airlines flight?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-07 | by ( Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

A helicopter takes off from Chinese warship Jinggangshan during an early search for the missing Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines flight 370 on March 11, 2014. Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines flight 370 dropped off the radar shortly after departing Kuala Lumpur in the small hours of March 8, 2014. Families of passengers from China and Malaysia on board MH370 during a remembrance event commemorating the 10th anniversary of its disappearance, in Subang Jaya, Malaysia, on March 3, 2024. Hasnoor Hussain/ReutersAviation experts tell CNN that improved detection technology will likely bring families closer to the missing plane than they ever have been, if a search were to be relaunched. Phoenix Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Bluefin-21 is craned over the side of Australian Defense Vessel Ocean Shield in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 on April 14, 2014.

Persons: MH370, Jiang Hui, ” Jiang, “, ”, Jiang Cuiyun, It’s, V.P.R Nathan, Anne Daisy, Hasnoor Hussain, Anthony Loke, Grace Subathirai Nathan, Adli Ghazali, Oliver Plunkett, it’s, ” Geoffrey Thomas, AirlineRatings.com, Leut Kelli Lunt, Richard Quest, Richard Godfrey, Godfrey, Fred Dufour, AirlineRatings’s Thomas, ” Godfrey, “ I’m, Sarah Bajc, Phil Wood, Bajc, Jiang Organizations: CNN, Malaysia Airlines, Reuters, Reuters Aviation, Malaysian, Transport, Malaysian Transport, Anadolu Agency, Getty, Boeing, Underwater, Australian Defense, Australia Department of Defence, CNN’s, Aviation, Radio, British Aerospace, MH370, British Locations: Beijing, China, Kuala Lumpur, Africa, Malaysia, Subang Jaya, United States, Madagascar, Putrajaya, Australia, Malaysian, Perth, AFP, Asia, Panama, Zhuji

☆ American Airlines flight forced to return to Albuquerque after a man tried to open the emergency exit, passengers say
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Melissa Alonso | Amanda Jackson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Multiple people on an American Airlines flight pulled a fellow passenger to the floor after he tried to open one of the emergency exits, forcing the plane to return to Albuquerque, New Mexico, shortly after takeoff, according to multiple passengers. As of Sunday, there have been more than 250 unruly passenger incidents reported to the FAA by flight crews this year, according to the agency. The incident Tuesday began about twenty minutes into the flight, passenger Zach Etkind told CNN. Multiple passengers got the man to the ground and flight attendants restrained him with duct tape and flexi cuffs, Etkind said. And in November, a man on a Southwest Airlines flight opened an emergency exit door and climbed onto the plane’s wing while the aircraft was at a gate in New Orleans.

Persons: Chicago “, ”, Zach Etkind, “, Emma Ritz, ” Ritz, Blaze Ward, KOAT, ” Ward, Etkind, Sunport Organizations: CNN, American Airlines, FAA, KOAT, Albuquerque, Albuquerque Division, Southwest Airlines Locations: Albuquerque , New Mexico, Chicago, ABQ, Canadian, Thailand, South Korea, New Orleans

☆ Flight attendant who was on Alaska Airlines when door plug blew out is now picketing for ‘living wage’
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

New York CNN —Steve Maller, a flight attendant for nearly 20 years, was one of the flight attendants on the Alaska Airlines flight 1282 when a door plug blew out. But he did say he’s also proud of how the flight attendants on board responded. “We have flight attendants who live in cars because they can’t afford to live where they’re based,” she said. A flight attendant wears a pin reading,' Flight Attendants Save Live!' He said many are already walking out — and the steady flow of flight attendants leaving Alaska every month worries him.

Persons: Steve Maller, Maller, Ben Minicucci, ”, ” Maller, “, he’s, He’s, haven’t, don’t, Joe Raedle, Julie Hedrick, we’re, We’re, Ondrea Wallace, she’s, Wallace, we’ve, Joe Biden, Nam, Sara Nelson, Biden Organizations: New, New York CNN, Alaska Airlines, of Flight, National Transportation Safety, General Motors, Ford, Railway Labor, United Airlines, Miami International Airport, —, Association of Professional, Association of Flight, CWA, Transport Workers Union, American Airlines, Railway Labor Act, O'Hare International, AFA, United, Alaska Air Locations: New York, Alaska, Portland , Oregon, Portland, Alaksa, United, Southwest, Chicago, ”

☆ Why AI can’t replace air traffic controllers
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-12 | by ( Amy Pritchett | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

In the air traffic control system, everything must meet the highest levels of safety, but not everything goes according to plan. I’m an aerospace engineer who led a National Academies study ordered by Congress about air traffic controller staffing. What air traffic controllers do? The Federal Aviation Administration’s fundamental guidance for the responsibility of air traffic controllers states: “The primary purpose of the air traffic control system is to prevent a collision involving aircraft.” Air traffic controllers are also charged with providing “a safe, orderly and expeditious flow of air traffic” and other services supporting safety, such as helping pilots avoid mountains and other hazardous terrain and hazardous weather, to the extent they can. Researchers are using machine learning to analyze and predict aspects of air traffic and air traffic control, including air traffic flow between cities and air traffic controller behavior.

Persons: Tolga Akmen, Timothy Arel, Harry Reid, Ethan Miller, Amy Pritchett Organizations: CNN, National Academies, Congress, Federal Aviation, Air, FAA, London Heathrow, Tolga, Getty, U.S . Senate, Robotics, Cessna, United Airlines, Kansas City Chiefs United Airlines, Harry Reid International, Air Force One, Penn State University, National Science Foundation, Center, Aerial Mobility, NASA Locations: AFP, Las Vegas

☆ Canadian arrested for allegedly opening plane door, deploying evacuation slide in Thailand
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Kocha Olarn | Karla Cripps | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Bangkok CNN —A Canadian man has been arrested in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai after he allegedly opened the door on a commercial plane and triggered the evacuation slide prior to takeoff. According to a statement issued by the Chiang Mai International Airport, the incident took place on the night of February 7. The Airbus A320 was unable to be immediately moved, temporarily preventing other flights from taking off and landing, said the statement. Chiang Mai officials say 2,295 passengers were affected by the February 7 incident. Police said they were unaware of the suspect’s motive for opening the door, but noted he appeared stressed and was difficult to communicate with.

Persons: Bangkok CNN —, Chiang Mai, Chiang, “, ”, Ronnakorn Chalermsanyakorn, Manuschai, Wong Sai Heung Organizations: Bangkok CNN, Chiang Mai International Airport, Thai Airways, Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi, Airbus, Airways, Chiang Mai International Airport Thai Airways, Chiang Mai Police, CNN, Police, Psychiatric, Canadian Embassy Locations: Bangkok, Thai, Chiang Mai, Thailand

☆ Si Spiegel, War Hero Who Modernized Christmas Trees, Dies at 99
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Sam Roberts | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Before he became known as the father of artificial Christmas trees, Si Spiegel was a valiant Army aviator. In the closing days of World War II, he was piloting his B-17 Flying Fortress in an armada of 1,500 Allied bombers that pummeled Berlin. Struck by antiaircraft flak, two of the plane’s four engines lost power as Mr. Spiegel reversed course to return to England. Rather than bail out over Germany and risk being captured as a prisoner of war — especially given that he was Jewish — Mr. Spiegel managed to crash-land in Soviet-occupied Poland. After being stuck there for weeks, he improvised a daring escape, using parts of his own plane to jury-rig another B-17 that had crashed nearby, then flying to an American base in Italy.

Persons: Si Spiegel, Spiegel Locations: Berlin, England, Germany, Soviet, Poland, Italy

☆ How a quick-thinking flight attendant and several passengers helped save 6 flamingo eggs aboard a flight
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Christina Maxouris | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Six flamingo eggs from Atlanta’s zoo were chosen to be transported to the Woodland Park Zoo, in Seattle, which had older flamingos that were past their breeding age. The plan was simple: a Woodland Park zookeeper would transport the six eggs from Atlanta to Seattle on a roughly six-hour flight, using a portable incubator to keep the eggs warm. “The flamingo eggs would not have survived in a non-functioning portable incubator for five hours,” Joanna Klass, a Woodland Park Zoo animal care manager, said in a news release. A flamingo named ‘Sunny’The six Chilean flamingo chicks were the first to hatch at the Woodland Park Zoo since 2016, the zoo has said. May and her granddaughter met the the flamingo chicks at Woodland Park Zoo last year.

Persons: Amber May, ”, May, ” Joanna Klass, “ We’re, –, ’, Bernardo, Magdalena, Amaya, Rosales, Gonzo, Jeremy Dwyer, Lindgren Organizations: CNN, Alaska Airlines, ”, Zoo, Sunny Locations: Seattle, Woodland, Atlanta

☆ Alaska Airlines 737 May Have Left Boeing Factory Missing Bolts, N.T.S.B. Says
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Sydney Ember | Mark Walker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The panel, known as a door plug, was opened to repair damaged rivets on the plane’s body, known as the fuselage. The report did not say who removed the bolts keeping the door plug in place. But the safety board said it appeared that not all the bolts were put back once the door was reinstalled on the plane after the rivets had been repaired. provided a photograph of the door plug after it was reinstalled but before the plane’s interior was restored. In the image, three of the four bolts appear to be missing.

Organizations: Alaska Airlines, National Transportation Safety Board, Boeing Locations: Alaska, Boeing’s, Renton, Wash

Political Cartoons View All 253 ImagesHow did Deep Sea Vision detect the object that could be Earhart's plane? But it wasn't until the team reviewed sonar data in December that they saw the fuzzy yellow outline of what resembles a plane. “In the end, we came out with an image of a target that we believe very strongly is Amelia’s aircraft," Romeo told The Associated Press. But he said that Romeo’s team must provide “a forensic level of documentation” to prove it’s Earhart’s Lockheed. He would have expected to see straight wings and not swept wings, like the new sonar suggests, as well as engines.

Persons: Amelia Earhart, Tony Romeo, Electra, Romeo, Earhart, Fred Noonan, Noonan, “ Amelia, James Delgado, ”, Delgado, Romeo's, David Jourdan, Dorothy Cochrane, Cochrane, ’ ”, Lockheed Electra, Ole Varmer, Varmer, ” Varmer, “ It’s, —, Finley, Pollard Organizations: COLUMBIA, Lockheed, Archaeologists, Pan American Airlines, Air Force, Associated Press, Navy, National Air and Space Museum, National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration, The Ocean Foundation, Purdue Research Foundation, Purdue University in, Smithsonian, America Statehouse News Initiative, America Locations: South Carolina, Norwegian, Howland, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, New Guinea, U.S, New Jersey, “, Maritime, Connecticut, Howland Island, Purdue University in Indiana, Norfolk , Virginia

The pilots of the London-bound American Airlines Boeing 777 took a wrong turn on a taxiway alongside two perpendicular runways. Instead, they crossed 4L just as a Delta Boeing 737 began its takeoff roll down the same runway. A controller warned the American crew about a “possible pilot deviation," and gave them a phone number to call, which the captain did. The cockpit voice recording from inside the American plane was taped over during the six-hour flight to London and lost forever. Investigators said they tried several times to interview the American pilots, but the pilots refused on advice of their union, which objected to the NTSB recording the interviews.

Persons: John F, “, Michael Graber, ”, Graber, Traci Gonzalez, Jeffrey Wagner, — Organizations: American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, National Transportation Safety, Kennedy International Airport, U.S, Federal Aviation Administration, American Airlines Boeing, Delta Boeing, Delta, London, NTSB, Allied Pilots Association, FAA Locations: New York, London

I don’t know whether they did it on purpose or by mistake, through thoughtlessness,” Putin said of Ukraine at a meeting with students. Putin offered no details to support the allegation that Ukraine was to blame, which other Russian officials have also made. Ukrainian officials have not said whether their military shot down the plane, but they called for an international investigation. Political Cartoons View All 253 ImagesBoth sides in Russia's 23-month-long war in Ukraine have often used accusations to sway opinion at home and abroad. Ukrainian officials confirmed that a prisoner exchange was due to happen Wednesday but said it was called off.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Putin, ” Putin, Mykola Oleshchuk, “, Volodymyr Zelenskyy Organizations: Authorities Locations: Russia’s Belgorod, thoughtlessness, Ukraine, Belgorod, Moscow, russia, ukraine

☆ Boeing Reinstalled Panel That Later Blew Out of 737 Max Jet
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Sydney Ember | Mark Walker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Nearly three weeks after a hole blew open on a Boeing 737 Max 9 during an Alaska Airlines flight, terrifying passengers, new details about the jet’s production are intensifying scrutiny of Boeing’s quality-control practices. About a month before the Max 9 was delivered to Alaska Airlines in October, workers at Boeing’s factory in Renton, Wash., opened and later reinstalled the panel that would blow off the plane’s body, according to a person familiar with the matter. The employees opened the panel, known as a door plug, because work needed to be done to its rivets — which are often used to join and secure parts on planes — said the person, who asked for anonymity because the person isn’t authorized to speak publicly while the National Transportation Safety Board conducts an investigation. The request to open the plug came from employees of Spirit AeroSystems, a supplier that makes the body for the 737 Max in Wichita, Kan. After Boeing employees complied, Spirit employees who are based at Boeing’s Renton factory repaired the rivets. Boeing employees then reinstalled the door.

Persons: Max, — Organizations: Boeing, Max, Alaska Airlines, National Transportation, Spirit Locations: Boeing’s, Renton, Wash, Wichita, Kan

How Did a Boeing Jet End Up With a Big Hole? At about 16,000 feet, pilots heard a loud boom, and the pressure dropped further: One of those door plugs had completely torn off. National Transportation Safety BoardBoeing’s chief executive, Dave Calhoun, has suggested that a manufacturing lapse was responsible for the door plug blowing out. investigation, it’s clear to us we received an airplane from the manufacturer with a faulty door plug,” Alaska said in a statement. An older Boeing model, the 737-900ER, has the same design for its door plugs as the Max 9.

Persons: Bolts, New York Times Bolts, Jeff Simon, cotter, Simon, ”, it’s, ” Gary Peterson, Dave Calhoun, AeroSystems, Max, fuselages, Joe Buccino, Mr, Buccino, Mathieu Lewis, Rolland Organizations: Boeing, Alaska Airlines, New York Times, The New York Times, National Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Transport Workers Union of America, Transportation Safety, Alaska Airline, Transportation, CNBC, Spirit, Board, Portland International Airport Locations: Alaska, Portland ,, Malaysia, Wichita, Kan, Renton, Wash, Jan

☆ Four survive charter jet crash in Afghanistan but condition of two others unclear, Russia says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Two Taliban provincial officials said four survivors were now with Taliban administration officials who had reached the remote, mountainous site of the crash. The Taliban administration’s top spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the pilot of the plane was among four who had survived. The Russian-registered charter plane with six people on board disappeared from radar screens over Afghanistan a day earlier, Russian aviation authority Rosaviatsia said on Sunday, after Afghan police said they had received reports of a crash. The pilot then reported that one engine had stopped, and then that the second one had also stopped, SHOT reported. Afghanistan police had received reports of a plane crash in a remote, mountainous region of Badakhshan in Afghanistan’s far north, a provincial police spokesperson said on Sunday.

Persons: Zabiullah Mujahid, ”, Rosaviatsia, “, Zabihullah Amiri Organizations: CNN, Taliban, Thailand’s Utapao, Dassault Aviation, Falcon, Reuters, Russia’s, Athletic Locations: Moscow, Afghanistan, Islamic, Thailand’s, Pattaya, India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Russian, Indian, Thailand’s Pattaya, Bangkok, “, Russia, Badakhshan, Afghanistan’s, Fayzabad

☆ American Airlines flight attendant faces child porn charge after allegedly filming minors in airplane bathrooms, DOJ says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Sarah Dewberry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

After the incident, Thompson was “immediately withheld from service” and hasn’t worked for American Airlines since, the company said in a statement. Estes Carter Thompson Lynchburg Adult Detention Center“We take these allegations very seriously,” American Airlines said in its statement. “It is alleged that, beneath the red stickers, Thompson had concealed his iPhone to record a video,” the release said. The girl took a picture of the concealed phone and returned to her seat to show her parents, it said. The parents notified other flight attendants, who then told the plane’s captain, who in turn alerted law enforcement on the ground, prosecutors said.

Persons: Estes Carter Thompson III, Thompson, ”, Jodi Cohen, “, hasn’t, Estes Carter Organizations: CNN, An American Airlines, US, American Airlines, Lynchburg Adult Detention, Airlines, Logan International Airport, of Locations: Lynchburg , Virginia, Massachusetts, Boston, Charlotte , North Carolina, Lynchburg, North Carolina, Western, of Virginia

☆ AirAsia flight: Live snake discovered in overhead cabin on plane from Bangkok
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Heather Chen | Kocha Olarn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Bangkok, Thailand CNN —Chaos erupted on a domestic flight traveling from Thailand’s capital Bangkok to the southern province of Phuket after a live snake was discovered by passengers in an overhead bin. In a statement sent to CNN, AirAsia Thailand said it was aware of an incident onboard Flight FD3015 that departed Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok on January 13. This is the second reported incident of a snake found onboard an AirAsia plane. Passengers seated near the bin where the snake was spotted could be seen standing, away from their seats, in the video. Airport ground security staff were later spotted onboard the plane, investigating the area of the cabin where the snake was captured.

Persons: Phol Poompuang, ” Phol Organizations: Thailand CNN, CNN, AirAsia, Don Mueang International, Kuching International Airport, AirAsia Thailand Locations: Bangkok, Thailand, Thailand’s, Phuket, AirAsia Thailand, Don, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Sabah, Kuching, Sarawak

☆ Cracked window on Boeing 737 forces All Nippon Airways flight to turn back
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Junko Ogura | Marc Stewart | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

The crack was discovered about 40 minutes after take-off in the “second window from the right out of six windows in the cockpit,” ANA said. All 65 passengers and crew of the ANA flight 1182 arrived back safely, it added. The crack was discovered in the outermost of four layers of tempered glass on the cockpit window, the airline said. On January 5, a door plug on an Alaska Airlines flight blew open mid-flight, leaving a refrigerator-sized hole in the fuselage. The FAA said last week it was opening an investigation into Boeing’s quality control due to the failure of the door plug.

Persons: Boeing Max Organizations: Tokyo CNN, All Nippon Airways, ANA, Boeing, Japan’s Ministry of Land, Transport, Tourism, Alaska Airlines, Alaska Air, United Airlines, Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, National Transportation Safety Locations: Infrastructure, Oregon, United States

☆ What happens when an airplane cabin suddenly depressurizes?
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —A loud bang, a jolt, and cold air whooshing suddenly through the cabin: these were the immediate signs that something was very wrong aboard Alaska Airlines flight 1282, according to one passenger report. As investigators work to determine exactly what caused the incident, we look at what happens when an aircraft experiences a sudden loss of cabin pressure and the risks for those on board. “As the aircraft climbs, the cabin pressure will eventually settle to about 8,000 feet. The flight crew will immediately start working to get the aircraft down to about 10,000 feet, where the air will be breathable. There will also be a massive wind blast as all that pressure in the cabin goes out the hole.

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☆ 4 things to know about Boeing and Alaska Air 1282
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —Boeing and US air travel are still facing the fallout a week after the dramatic in-flight door plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 last Friday. That’s the mistake, it can never happen.”Here are the latest updates on Boeing and the effects of Alaska Air flight 1282. That’s thanks to a combination of winter weather and the continued grounding of Boeing 737 Max 9 planes. A class action lawsuit was filed Thursday in Washington state against Boeing on behalf of the passengers aboard last week’s Alaska Airlines flight 1282. Some aviation experts raised questions about the structural design of the section of the Boeing 737 Max 9 that blew off the plane.

Persons: Boeing Max, Dave Calhoun, Calhoun, Max, ”, Mike Whitaker, ” Whitaker, David Soucie, Joe Sutton, Pete Muntean, Curt Devine, Ross Levitt Organizations: New, New York CNN, Boeing, Alaska Airlines Boeing, Max, United, Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, National Transportation Safety, Wednesday, CNBC, Alaska Air, United States, Alaska Airlines, CNN Locations: New York, Oregon, United States, Alaska, United, O’Hare, Midway, Washington

☆ 737 Max 9: What travelers need to know
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Marnie Hunter | Forrest Brown | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

More than 170 of the Boeing 737 Max 9s remain grounded in the United States. Alaska Airlines said in a statement on January 20 that the airline had completed preliminary inspections on a group of their Max 9 aircraft. NTSB Investigator-in-Charge John Lovell examines the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, a Boeing 737-9 Max, in Portland, Oregon, on Sunday. NTSB/Handout/ReutersThe FAA order grounded 171 of the world’s 737 Max 9 aircraft. What do I do if my flight is canceled because of the grounding of the 737 Max 9?

Persons: Max, ” “ We’re, It’s, John Lovell, Kathleen Bangs, ”, Scott Keyes, ” Keyes, David Soucie, haven’t, it’s, Bangs, ” Bangs, she’s, Keyes Organizations: CNN, Boeing, Max, Federal Aviation Administration, Alaska Airlines, FAA, “, United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Cirium . Lion, Delta Airlines, Lion, NTSB, Sunday, Reuters, Copa Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Lion Air, CNN Travel, United Locations: Alaska, Portland , Oregon, United States, United, Cirium, Indonesia, Panama, Turkish

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