For the first time we’re hearing from one of the pilots about the Alaska Airlines door blew out incident in January that sparked a federal investigation. Boeing Manufacturing Aero Russia was on hand with that story right now. The pilot gave scary details about the moment the door and the bellow came off the packed plane. The beginning of major investigations at Boeing, which now faces an NTSB investigation and a possible strike by more than thirty thousand employees. It was a terrible mid-air malfunction. That put Boeing under the microscope, I didn’t know there was a hole in the airplane. Until we landed and this morning Alaska Airlines pilot Emily Whipp Rudd spoke to our news, describing the moment her plane’s door plug blew out in January.
It was a blast in my ears and then a rush of air pushing my body forward. There was a loud bang, we proved that the cabin lost pressure immediately. That’s when the captain knew this situation was terrible. But it wasn’t until they got that packed plane safely landed that they realized what had happened. I opened the door to the flight deck and I saw it was very quiet. Hundreds of eyes staring at me. I looked at my flight attendant and I asked are you okay. In that response, I heard the cry for five empty seats and injuries.
The MAX nine jetliner took off from Portland with one hundred seventy-one passengers on board, occupying almost every seat. Six crew members were on board and remarkably no one was seated next to that disastrous door. It didn’t take us very long to confirm that we had one hundred seventy-seven people on board. Everyone was there, the incident sparked wide-scale scrutiny of Boeing, the plane’s manufacturer and whistleblowers about manufacturing issues. The warnings followed as the company’s CEO apologized to lawmakers on Capitol Hill in June to the families of three hundred forty-six people. The very people who died in the thirty-seven MAX jetliner crashes in 218 and 2197.
Now Boeing is facing a strike by its workers. Thirty-three thousand workers are threatening to quit their jobs demanding forty percent more salary, bonus, and pension.
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