BREAKING: An @AlaskaAir @Boeing 737-8MAX Lost A Large Section Mid-Air & Made An Emergency Landing In Oregon. Alaska Airlines Crew Did A Magnificent Job & No One Was Seriously Injured.
The 737 MAX Has Been Plagued With Issues Since Its Introduction! pic.twitter.com/9l0eZHA7cS

— John Basham (@JohnBasham) January 6, 2024

NEW IMAGE from on board Alaska Airlines 1282 after ***part of the fuselage*** blew out mid-flight. Successful emergency return to Portland after 20 minutes in the air. 10-week-old (!) Boeing 737 Max 9. NTSB investigating. pic.twitter.com/qjX8fQ1br1

— Pete Muntean (@petemuntean) January 6, 2024

A couple hours ago, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 returned to PDX for an emergency decompression. This plane is only 3 months old. pic.twitter.com/7NMr5Vs3ZU

— Chuck Mahon (@ChuckMahon) January 6, 2024

https://apnews.com/article/boeing-exemption-safety-rules-max-10be423759080f64d4418019e4e4874d

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Updated 9:40 PM EST, January 5, 2024

DALLAS (AP) Boeing is asking federal regulators to exempt a new model of its 737 Max airliner from a safety standard designed to prevent part of the engine housing from overheating and breaking off during flight.

Federal officials said last year that Boeing was working to fix the hazard on current Max planes. In the meantime, they told pilots to limit use of an anti-icing system in some conditions to avoid damage that "could result in loss of control of the airplane."

Without a fix ready, Boeing asked the Federal Aviation Administration last month for an exemption to safety standards related to engine inlets and the anti-ice system through May 2026. Boeing needs the exemption to begin delivering the new, smaller Max 7 to airlines.

Boeing said Friday that it is "developing a long-term solution" that would face FAA review.

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Well that would explain it

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Kind of looks like some dip**** pulled the handle on emergency door mid flight. 24 hour rule in effect

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Is that even possible? There HAS to be some sort of fail safe for this, but I honestly don't know.

Aggie Jurist said:

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Those are plug doors. There is NO WAY to open them mid-flight. Thousands of pounds of force on those doors when the cabin is pressurized.

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Yep. Confirmed from boeing friend. Way more to come. A mess at the moment.

Eff all that.

FTAG 2000 said:

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Kind of looks like some dip**** pulled the handle on emergency door mid flight. 24 hour rule in effect

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Thought that wasn't possible

Puts on Boeing

I thought it wasn't either, the amount of air pressure is to heavy for some idiot to open the door mid air

FTAG 2000 said:

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FTAG 2000 said:

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Kind of looks like some dip**** pulled the handle on emergency door mid flight. 24 hour rule in effect

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Talked to Boeing rep tonight (client). Confirmed this is an exit row window.

TBD if it blew out on its own or some drunk ass passenger pulled the red bar

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Wait…there are emergency exit doors passengers can just open at full altitude? No way. I'm never flying again if that's the case, with the way society is headed.

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Wait…there are emergency exit doors passengers can just open at full altitude?

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No.

Somewhere on the assembly line, either a defective part was used or a tech screwed up.

the MAX also had some forced maintenance recall in the last few weeks over a series of screws that needed to be retightened.

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Bubblez said:

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Airbus is far superior than Boeing. No question about that now.

Boeing and American civil aviation has really lost their way.

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Air France 447 says hold my beer.

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That was almost 15 years ago.

The fuselage comes from a sub located in the Midwest

Never worked 73 - this is - Section 45? I think Spirit Aerosystems manufactures that section.

Not sure if plugged is installed by Spirit, Boeing, or a sub doing finish out work.

FTAG 2000 said:

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Aggie Jurist said:

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Those are plug doors. There is NO WAY to open them mid-flight. Thousands of pounds of force on those doors when the cabin is pressurized.

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Yep. Confirmed from boeing friend. Way more to come. A mess at the moment.

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Yes. This was manufactured somehow wrong. The plane was like a month old and the whole plug flew out. Fortunately because it's a plugged emergency exit door no one could be seated next to it anyway, fwiw. There were apparently some intermittent pressurization errors the previous few days on this plane, so they took it off their ETOPS route by maintenance rule (extended twin overwater flying).

Presumably the plug was leaking around the seals already so it sounds like it simply wasn't produced in correctly. The bolts themselves wouldn't have pressure on them when pressurized so it's pretty bizarre.

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The fuselage comes from a sub located in the Midwest

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Yes.....Spirit - what used to be the Wichita Boeing plant where my father and my grandfather both worked.