How Safe Is Flying Today? Answering Your Questions

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 28 January 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Are you feeling hesitant about getting back into the sky? After the recent Alaska Airlines incident, when a Boeing 737 Max 9 lost an emergency exit-sized door plug during a flight, many flyers have had airplane safety top of mind. So before you return your seat back and tray table to its full, upright position, WSJ aviation reporter Ben Katz is here to answer your questions about aviation safety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.0	Listeners, it's Sunday January 28th.
0:36.0	I'm Anne Marie Fertoli.
0:37.0	And I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal,
0:40.0	and this is What's News Sunday, the show where we tackle the big questions about the biggest
0:44.6	stories in the news by reaching out to our colleagues across the newsroom to help explain
0:48.9	what's happening in our world.
0:51.2	This week we're looking into aviation safety and we answer your questions
0:54.6	following the Alaska Airlines incident. I'm sure you haven't forgotten it. It was
1:02.2	Friday January 5th when an Alaska Airlines flight narrowly avoided disaster at 16,000 feet when an emergency exit-sized door plug blew out on a Boeing 737 max-9 jet.
1:13.5	None of the 171 passengers and six crew members of board were heard.
1:17.0	But the news was petrifying enough to make some people never want to set foot on a plane again.
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