Troubles continue for Boeing’s 737 Max series of airliners, with the latest dangerous incident taking place yesterday above the airport in Portland, Oregon. This was a totally different issue than we’ve seen with these planes in the past and the details are disturbing enough to make it noteworthy, though thankfully nobody was seriously injured. An Alaskan Airlines flight had taken off for its third flight of the day but when it reached 16,000 feet, a window suddenly blew out of the side of the fuselage. The passenger cabin immediately decompressed and the outgassing was so severe that a young boy had his shirt ripped off of him entirely and it blew out of the plane. (Associated Press)
Alaska Airlines grounded all of its Boeing 737-9 aircraft late Friday, hours after a window and piece of fuselage on one such plane blew out in midair and forced an emergency landing in Portland,…
