What we know about Alaska Airlines Flight 1282
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The Washington Post
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🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
A terrifying accident on an Alaskan Airlines flight has put renewed scrutiny on Boeing, the airline industry titan, which has seen a series of accidents and mechanical failures in recent years
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On Friday, a side panel on an Alaska Airlines flight popped out of place as the plane was ascending, sending air whistling through the cabin and terrifying passengers. The plane landed safely — but this was the latest in a series of mechanical issues on Boeing planes, some of which have ended in fatal crashes.
Washington Post transportation reporter Ian Duncan has followed the troubled history of the Boeing 737 Max jet. He joins us to break down the federal and industry response to last week’s accident and the guardrails meant to keep air travel safe.
Today’s show was produced by Emma Talkoff. It was mixed by Rennie Svirnovskiy. And edited by Monica Campbell. Thanks to Sabby Robinson, Silvia Foster-Frau and Sandhya Somashekhar.
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| 0:00.0 | For Nick Hoke, the flight started out like any other. Kind of boring. |
| 0:07.0 | I was in seat 12A on the left side of the aircraft. |
| 0:11.0 | You just kind of settle into your pre-flight routine, get your |
| 0:14.4 | podcast gone. I have my headphones on. And then we eventually take off just around |
| 0:20.6 | five or just after five o'clock. |
| 0:22.4 | Nick's an architect in his 30s. around five o'clock. |
| 0:28.6 | Nick's an architect in his 30s and he was taking off from Portland, Oregon to visit his girlfriend in California. |
| 0:35.0 | And Nick said he travels pretty frequently, but this flight was a little different. Just a few minutes into the flight, maybe 7, 10 minutes, somewhere around in that area, |
| 0:42.0 | all of a sudden hell breaks loose. |
| 0:44.0 | A big boom in the back, a big pop, kind of like a mini explosion followed like immediately by a rapid depressurization of the |
| 0:58.4 | cabin which is like puncturing a CO2 canister with this water vapor and all the oxygen is being sucked out. |
| 1:06.7 | So that kind of white cloud of mist comes rushing from the front of the plane kind of hit me in the face. |
| 1:16.0 | Almost blew my hat off, I grabbed at. |
| 1:20.0 | The plane kind of like shuttered and you could feel the wind of it right just |
| 1:27.8 | Getting sucked through the cabin |
| 1:31.8 | Nick spoke to our colleagues Sylvia Foster Frau after last Friday's accident on an Alaska |
| 1:37.4 | Airlines flight when one of the plane's panels blew out midair, leaving a gaping hole. |
| 1:44.0 | At that point, someone stood up in the middle of the plane and said, |
| 1:48.0 | there's a fucking hole in the plane as he's pointing back. |
| 1:51.0 | There's a hole in the plane. |
| 1:52.0 | Oh my God, there's a hole. |
| 1:54.0 | Then the pilot radioed air traffic control and prepared for an emergency landing. |
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