A Nightmarish Flight’s Aftermath
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On Friday, a short flight teetered into near disaster when a chunk of the plane flew off during its ascent. Whatever the results of the pending investigation into what went wrong, the accident comes at a bad moment for Boeing.
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‘A Black Eye’
Ten minutes into an Alaska Airlines flight from Portland, Oregon, to: One passenger texted loved ones that something was wrong with the plane, adding, “I love you.” Headrests were ripped off seats, and a shirt even reportedly flew off a young boy on board before the plane—with a gaping hole in its side—began an emergency landing. Thankfully, no one was killed or seriously injured, but the scene is both terrifying on a human level and concerning on a corporate one.
