In the side of the fuselage where a panel is in place, supposed to be in place in order to fend off emergency exits on those planes that are carrying fewer passengers than the plain is able to carry. were that to have happened, at a higher altitude, actualfact a higher altitude, actual fact it a higher altitude, actualfact it occurred minutes after the plane had left portland, experts are saying that the outcome could have been catastrophic with people as well as possessions being sucked out the hole in the fuselage. sucked out the hole in the fuselage- fuselage. and that is a horrific fuselage. and that is a horrific fort, fuselage. and that is a | horrific fort, something fuselage. and that is a - horrific fort, something like a hollywood movie. but the federal aviation administration is looking into this so these planes are grounded for now, aren t they? planes are grounded for now, aren t they? they are indeed. 171 of the aren t they? they are indeed. 171 of the max aren t they? they are indeed. 171 of the max nine aren t they? they are indeed. 171 of the max nine - aren t they? they are indeed. 171 of the max nine max i aren t they? they are indeed. i 171 of the max nine max nine 171 of the max nine max nine have been grounded and they look like they will be
Ride up, which appears to be the mechanism in place here, and that air pressure willjust blow the plug out of the cabin, but it is a very good reminder as to why you should have your seat belt on up when you re in your seat if you don t need to be moving about. but that s quite a lot of force coming out of a cabin, even at that altitude, and obviously a cruising level, you can pretty much double that. so much force that the pretty much double that. so much force that the headset pretty much double that. so much force that the headset of - pretty much double that. so much force that the headset of the - pretty much double that. so much | force that the headset of the pilot, which was found in portland, had come back 26 rows in the plane. that tells you the force of the explosive decompression that they had. you can sort of excuse maybe one plane having a defect like this, but that s not the case here was to alaska and united have checked a number of planes, and these bolts are loose to the naked eye. how on earth does that happen? find i are loose to the naked eye. how on earth does that happen? and i think that is something earth does that happen? and i think that is something that earth does that happen? and i think that is something that the
Delivery so it s unlikely that door had been changed since it was manufactured and delivered to the airline. they will figure out what the cause was, and they will make sure they know whether this was a very unique event to this one airplane, or if there was an issue with that kind of exit on other airplanes of similar types. can you put yourself in the cockpit of that flight and tell us this alaska airlines flight, and describe how the pilots handled this? it sounds as though the pilots and crew handled it perfectly. what is your sense of it? that s certainly the impression i get from what we know, what little we know. apparently there was a cockpit alert, as there should have been, when that exit was opened. the cockpit crew would have been aware of the pressure changing, and they would know they need to descend to an altitude where
Pressurization was not going to be an issue and the air was easier to breathe. they would have to communicate with the flight attendant crew to assess what damage occurred. absent that warning light in the cockpit and maybe noise, they would not really know what was going on in the cabin, so it s important the flight attendants inform the cabin and first of officer was about the situation going on. this was such a close call. you know something about close calls. how close a call was this to being just an absolute tragedy? well, it s very fortunate that it happened at 1,600 feet, where the differential between the pressure inside the cabin and outside in the atmosphere was not as great at a much higher altitude. it s also fortunate there was nobody seated by that exit, and it s important people kept their
This is cnn newsroom. with max foster. it is 9:00 a.m. in london. u.s. investigators say the missing part of the alaska airlines plane that blew off mid-flight has been found. it s remarkable. a schoolteacher contacted them after he found it in his backyard on sunday. investigators had been searching for the plug since it blew off the aircraft friday while the plane was at an altitude of 16,000 feet. the video you see now, you can see those investigators from the national transportation safety board inside the plane itself piecing together what happened on the flight. one thing they learned is the cockpit voice recorder was overwritten. there was nothing on it. communication is key.
Mid flight has been found. they say a portland schoolteacher contacted them after he found it in his backyard on sunday. we are really pleased that we, that bob found this. he took a picture. i can just see the outside of the door plug. we can t see anything else. the plane was at an altitude of 16,000 feet when it blew off. they asked for the public s health locating it. the plane s cockpit voice recorder was completely overwritten and there is nothing on it. cockpit voice recorders are not just convenient for the
Investigators say the missing part of the alaska airlines plane that flew off midflight has been found. it was found in a backyard on sunday. we are pleased that bob found this. he took a photo. i can see the outside of the door plug from the photos. we will go pick that up and make sure we begin analyzing. investigators have been searching for the door plug sent to blew off the aircraft friday while the plane was at a altitude of 16,000 feet. investigators also say the planes cockpit voice recorder was overwritten and there is nothing on it. cockpit voice recorders are
Consciousness, whereas at 16,000 feet you ve got ten minutes. so the fact that it happened at that altitude is yet another silver lining here. absolutely. and i want to play for you talked about what we re normally talking about is the search for the black box, the cockpit voice and data recorders, to go through that. one thing we know here is that the cockpit voice recorder, they basically have lost all of the usable material from it because of how it gets overwritten every two hours. for the control room, this is the second sound bite. let me play what the chair of the ntsb said about this today, miles. we re disappointed that the cockpit voice recorder was overwritten. we can learn a lot from that cockpit voice recorder. we have urged the faa to extend the cockpit voice recorder time from two hours to 25 hours because we want to hear
Course, might take even longer that than that. but because of we have 171 planes grounded, united and alaska airlines planes, that has resulted in hundreds of flight cancellations across the country. i just yesterday was trying to fly across the country. i couldn t do that. couldn t get from point a to b quickly and a lot of families are experiencing a similar problem. thankfully nobody was injured on this incident. nobody was sitting in the two seats near the hole that opened up. they were at 14,400 feet. managed to land safely in portland but it was a close call and the concern was if it happened at a higher altitude, it could have been catastrophic. indeed. it s just scary. jeff, two max 8 jets crashed in
To make sure it s an isolated incident and not a problem with the max line, much of the fleet has been grounded cancelling over 300 flights today alone. nbc s tom costello with what investigators have found thus far. reporter: so, this is a krr critical find with investigators that have now uncovered that door plug, if you will, with the alaska airlines flight. this is a new plane. they just took ownership of it in november. they now have the black boxes, brought to thes in super bowl in washington. he hailed the crew as well, for their bridgery and courage, landing the plane, keeping everybody safe agency they suffered a serious decline in altitude from the plane flying. this morning, a critical discovery after that very close call in the skies. i m excited to announce that we found the door plug. reporter: the ntsb saying overnight a teachers in