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They would be forced by regulators to activate another emergency exit to comply with regulations. so its a sidewall panel that houses an emergency exit that alaska airlines does not use because it doesnt have a high—density cabin. so from the outside, it looks like a door, but from the inside, its just a normal sidewall panel. its that panel that at 16,000 feet ultimately triggered, or was part of, a decompression where it had blown out. and that separation of the panel leaving the aircraft, o...

An emergency landing with a gap in the fuselage. no one was injured. lets look at what we know about the panel which became detached from the fuselage. aviation analyst alex macheras explains how it differs from other panels on the plane. so, what we had seen in this incident is that the aircraft had departed as normal and was climbing to its cruising altitude. and just as it reached around 16,000 feet, we know that a sidewall panel... so to explain this simply, if you are sitting in an aircraft...

Service. meanwhile, the investigators, headed by ntsb, will be investigating all aspects of this and they will be looking at the fuselage and the plug of the part of the fuselage as was reported to determine exactly what went wrong. boeing has had its problems with these planes in the past few years, with two fatal disasters killing hundreds of people and the 737 max was grounded for quite a long time. what will be the key issue for boeing now going forward? boeing will be art boeing now going f...

So from the outside, it looks like a door, but from the inside, its just a normal sidewall panel. its that panel that at 16,000 feet ultimately triggered, or was part of, a decompression where it had blown out. and that separation of the panel leaving the aircraft, of course, triggers a decompression scenario that crew have to jump into place and into action to ensure that not only are passengers seated with their seatbelts fastened, but they are able to withstand the vacuum that then occurs. be...

Investigators will be downplaying. and its a testament to the crew, of course, and the flight crew that they were able to return safely. and, of course, they were quite lucky that nobody was sat in that initial window seat right next to the panel, where it had become separated from the aircraft. and i would just add that typically in air travel, that seat is quite sought after, because it has extra legroom because typically it would house an emergency exit. so its pretty unprecedented stuff. doc...