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Investigators described the door plug as a “key missing component” in understanding why the Boeing 737 Max jet was forced to make an emergency landing with a refrigerator-sized hole in its fuselage.
Australia. i appreciate you being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> now that the door plug that blew off that alaska airlines flight has been located by a portland resident in his backyard, investigators will pick it up and analyze it in an effort to find out what happened. what all will they be looking for when they examine this door plug? >> we will be looking for damage to the door, where it was attached to the fuselage. and the frame there. they obviously have the aircraft. and they would have been examing what was left of the door frame when the door came away. so the two together will...
At stake here, and i would bet that sometime this week when he's released, he's going to -- he's going to bring the pentagon press corps together and explain what happened, but i would almost bet he's not going to discuss what the issue was, the physical issue that he was getting treatment for. >> general mark hertling, thank you. obviously we wish him the best. we hope he makes a full recovery and he gets out of the hospital very soon. >> same here. yeah, thanks. >> of course. new this morning, a crucial missing piece of an alaska airlines plane has been found as investigators try to figure...
Minutes after the take-off with the plane at 16,000 feet elevation. 171 passengers on board along with six crew members. the cab-in lost pressure, oxygen masks came down. a boy's shirt was ripped off his body and cell phones flew out of the plane. air traffic controllers did not know if it was a terrorist attack or not. >> wide as a refrigerator and high as 2/three of a refrigerator in flight. all the air masks dropped. >> no injuries, a boeing executive told me on background he has never seen anything like this before. it almost has to be a mistake made when that door plug was installed. that...
Politics in a campaign year. it remains to be seen whether or not they concede to what you are looking for. tom, thank you, tom homan with us today. the mystery continues. the missing door plug from an alaska airlines flight was found in the backyard of a teacher in the state of oregon. ntsb now studying the investigation on that terrifying flight and dan springer is live in portland with more on this. what more do we know today? hello. >> the deal is finding the door plug has to be a help to the ntsb piecing together what caused the blow-out and 16 terrifying minutes until that plane got back...