Alaska Airlines ‘Event’ Captures Our Attention

We awoke in Cyprus this morning to the news that an Alaska flight out of Portland had a deactivated (“plugged”) emergency exit in Row 26 blow out.

Fortunately, the 737-MAX 9 was able to return to PDX and make an emergency landing. All aboard are safe.

Seattle’s KOMO has the best initial local coverage.

https://komonews.com/news/local/alaska-airlines-flight-1282-returns-to-pdx-after-a-depressurization-just-after-takeoff-boeing-737-max#

The UK Daily Mail headlines it:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12932631/Brand-new-Alaska-Airlines-Boeing-737-Max-suffers-mid-air-window-BLOW-causing-depressurization-ripped-childs-shirt-jet-returned-Portland-Airport-High-tech-jet-suffered-two-deadly-crashes.html

The Alaska CEO has just announced that all 65 of their 737-9 planes will be temporarily grounded.

https://news.alaskaair.com/alaska-airlines/operations/as-1282/

We’re scheduled to fly one to RSW (Ft. Myers Fl) in a few days.

We’ll just to wait and see what develops.