[Pyrites]

I’m surprised I haven’t already heard about search for missing portion of aircraft. Would the door and frame showed up on radar, at least part of the way to ground.

[grannyhiker]

I live under the takeoff path from PDX when there is an east wind, and nothing has landed in my yard or on my roof (fortunately, because it's new). Seriously, they know when the chunk of wall popped off, and they should know where the plane was at that time.

[Malachai Constant]

I hate it when that happens.

[treeswarper]

The panel is reported to be in Portland's Cedar Hills area. I think Boeing ought to be shut down for a bit and mentally retooled.

[grannyhiker]

The panel has been found!? https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/ntsb-press-briefing-alaska-air-1282-boeing-737-max-9-pdx-01062024/ Never believe headlines (that's why I added the ?); down in the text, it says "believed to be..." which has already been reported above. Good thing nobody seems to have been under it!

[Chief Joseph]

[neek]

[grannyhiker]

Cedar Hills residents have been out looking today. Two cell phones were found, and at 9 pm "officials" reported that a resident found the "plug door" in his back yard. https://www.kptv.com/2024/01/08/cedar-hills-neighbors-search-missing-door-plug-torn-alaska-airlines-flight/ It's not pleasant to think of debris dropping off airplanes onto my house!

[Pyrites]

Cell phones fall three miles still work. Wasn’t the ad takes a licking, keeps on ticking.

[treeswarper]

Warning light came on during previous flights so they decided to keep the plane from flying over ocean. Next step would be to slap some tape over the warning light...

[zephyr]

[grannyhiker]

What got me was that at least one of the cell phones was still fully functional! I watched the NTSB press briefing last night so got the early word about the plug door being found. The NTSB head was very grateful to "Bob," the resident who found the door in his back yard, took pictures, and notified the NTSB "hot line."

[Bowregard]

This plug design has been around forever and structurally is not much different than regular doors. It is good that they were able to find all the components to make it easier to analyze. Unless they started 3D printing or casting these door components to cut cost somebody screwed up big time. This is a very good opportunity to get to the root of the problem and resolve it without anybody getting hurt. I hope they do a good job and take advantage of it. The way that MCAS mess was allowed and "managed" was embarrassing.

[Malachai Constant]

I read that they found loose bolts in some of the other plug doors of other max-9s. Perhaps we could take up a collection to buy Alaska and United some tubes of Loctite in the red tubes.

[Chief Joseph]

I am thinking that no one is going to want to be seated next to the emergency exit doors going forward? Maybe they will offer passengers a discount for those seats? So lucky the 15 year old boy that had his shirt ripped off was not sucked out of that door. Talk about thank your lucky stars!