Alaska

It was wild to hear that an iPhone survived a 16,000-foot drop following the Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 plug door incident. That speaks volumes about the iPhone’s durability, and the owner’s great insight to use protective gear with it. There’s certainly some amount of luck involved here, too. The iPhone must have landed just right to avoid catastrophe.But it’s no wonder the iPhone drop incident went viral. An iPhone surviving such a fall is incredible, especially considering real-life incidents where iPhone…

Four bolts meant to keep the door plug on a Boeing 737 Max 9 from shifting up, then blowing wide open during flight are missing, and investigators are trying to determine what role, if any, they played in the frightening midair episode over Portland, Ore., last week. Minutes after Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 departed Portland International Airport for Ontario on Friday, the plane’s left door plug, which fills in an additional emergency exit that Alaska was not using in its modified layout of the 737 Max 9, blew open at…

Updated Jan. 9, 2024 5:07 pm ETBoeing CEO David Calhoun said the company needs to acknowledge its mistake as the aircraft maker reels from a door-plug failure that has resulted in roughly 170 of its planes being grounded and spooked its customers. “We are gonna approach this—No. 1—acknowledging our mistake,” Calhoun said Tuesday in an address to employees just days after the incident on an Alaska Airlines flight. “We’re gonna approach it with 100% and complete transparency every step of the way.”Copyright ©2024Dow Jones…

After an emergency exit-sized hole opened in the side of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 at 16,000 feet, a separate chaotic episode erupted when the cockpit door mysteriously flew open.That meant the pilots were subjected to the deafening wind and noise from the back of the plane—and also made the cockpit accessible to anyone inclined to try to force their way in.Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 After an emergency exit-sized hole opened in the side of…

Most of us for sure know the feeling of a phone falling from our hands, pockets, desks, or whatever and having a screen shatter. It’s usually it’s not even a major fall, just a slight one, and bam! The screen is destroyed.Well, apparently, sometimes phones survive bigger falls without any injuries. For example, this phone, which fell from a plane at 16,000 feet high with not a scratch on it! Unbelievable!It couldn’t be anticipated at the beginning of the year that an average flight from Oregon to California would soon…

If you pay attention to world news, then you probably know about Alaska Airlines flight 1282. While climbing to its cruising altitude on a US domestic flight between Portland, Oregon, and Ontario, California, a panel in the fuselage of the Boeing 737 Max 9 plane simply blew off causing a loss of cabin pressure and a lot of things simply being thrown out into the air. One of those things was an iPhone that was recovered by Seanathan Bates, a game designer and .NET application developer. He found it on the side of a road…

Last Sunday, on January 7, a Twitter user posted that they found an iPhone in a bush that had fallen from Alaska Airlines Flight 1282. On top of that, the iPhone appeared to be undamaged.Thanks to The Verge, we know the phone flew off the plane shortly after taking off. This had happened because a section of the fuselage broke off of the aircraft, which led the pilot to make an emergency landing at Portland International Airport. When the fuselage broke off, two phones flew out of the plane. The first…

It has been more than two days since Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 made an emergency landing after a section of the aircraft ripped off midair, leaving a hole in the plane at 16,000 feet. Here’s what we know so far about an investigation that officials from the National Transportation Safety Board opened into the incident.At this point, the probe is focused on the Alaska incident and not on a broader set of aircraft, such as separate versions of the 737 MAX or other planes. The focus could change as evidence surfaces about…

The Federal Aviation Administration has approved procedures for airlines to inspect their grounded 737 MAX 9 jets, clearing the way for the planes to return to service.Air-safety regulators had issued an emergency order Saturday temporarily grounding MAX 9 jets after a panel plugging an unused emergency exit blew out of an Alaska Airlines flight shortly after its takeoff from Portland, Ore., leaving a gaping void in the side of the plane. Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

The fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX, which was forced to make an emergency landing with a gap in the fuselage, is seen during its investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in Portland, Oregon, U.S. January 7, 2024. NTSB/Handout via REUTERS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTYNtsb | Via ReutersBoeing has given airlines instructions on how to inspect their 737 Max 9 jetliners, a step toward ending the grounding of the planes, people familiar with the…