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Alaska Airlines passengers sue Boeing over door plug blow-out

Source: Reuters/Boeing

Alaska Airlines passengers are suing Boeing in response to last week’s incident involving a domestic flight that resulted in a door-plug, a panel of the fuselage near the rear of the aircraft, blowing out of the plane mid-air.

The suit lists seven plaintiffs and was filed in the Superior Court of Washington for King County, where part of the. The 5 January incident took place at 16,000 feet as flight 1282 was departing from Portland, Oregon to Ontario, California.

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