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Alaska Airlines made the decision on Wednesday, Jan. 10 to ground its fleet of Boeing 737-9 MAX airplanes, canceling hundreds of flights through to Saturday, including several to and from Salt Lake City.
All Boeing 737 Max 9 airplanes remain grounded under the order of the Federal Aviation Administration as National Transportation Safety Board officials investigate why a chunk of fuselage ejected from Alaska Flight 1282 minutes after takeoff on Jan. 5. The aviation “accident” left a door-sized hole in the cabin of the plane at 16,000 feet to the horror of those on board and required the plane to make an emergency landing at the Portland International Airport.
By the end of Monday morning, over 80 Alaska Airlines flights had been cancelled out of Sea-Tac.
An Alaska Airlines passenger captured the forced emergency landing of the Boeing 737 Max aircraft after a large section of the plane blew off mid-flight.
Parts of New York saw over a foot of snow, although Central Park only reported .2 inches of snow fall. This means the Big Apple's streak is up to 692 days without at least one inch of snow.