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and the plane just filled with wind and air. and it's just crazy because that shouldn't happen, right? you don't — you know something's wrong and you don't know what. i didn't know where the air was coming from. the oxygen mask dropped. 170 aircraft of the same type were grounded as investigators began examining the plane. the door was found in a back garden not far away. it was very obviously part of a plane. it had the same curvature as a fuselage. my heart did start beating a little faster at that point because i thought, "oh, my goodness, people have been looking for this all w...

A door plug, which has been recovered, tore off after a plane took off from Portland, Oregon, causing depressurisation and forcing pilots to turn back. Since then, more than 170 planes have been grounded while safety checks are carried out.

Now let's speak to david learmount an aviation safety expert who has been following the investigation. what really gets to me is that these bolts literally are not tight enough and it seems like a simple thing but it has ended up being pretty catastrophic. how could that have been allowed to happen? it is difficult to _ been allowed to happen? it 3 difficult to imagine how such a simple thing that really did not need to happen could have been allowed to happen. let's remind ourselves that these might be coincidental to the actual cause and they may find something else but i think it is actuall...

More than 170 Boeing planes worldwide have been temporarily grounded after a chunk of fuselage dramatically blew out of a brand-new passenger jet in mid-air. 

The Alaska Airlines aircraft involved in Friday's incident had entered service just eight weeks earlier - and the fuselage that blew off covered a space reserved for an extra evacuation door. Passengers have described it as a "flight from hell".