hello. and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m michael holmes. a terrifying incident leaves many boeing 737 max 9s temporarily grounded and 177 passengers and crew feeling lucky to be alive. we re actually now waiting for a news briefing from the u.s. national transportation safety board. that s set to begin at any minute, and we will bring it to you live. they ll be discussing what happened on alaska airlines flight 1282 on friday. officials and witnesses say a part of the fuselage called a plug blew off during the plane s ascent leaving a gaping doorway sized hole in the side of the jet while it was an altitude of 16,000 feet. that s around 4,900 meters. incredibly the plane made a successful emergency landing and there were injuries but none of them serious. now, after the alaska airlines emergency, the u.s. federal aviation administration temporarily grounded certain boeing 737 max 9 aircraft operated by u.s. airlines or in u.s. terri
found. yeah. she made the point of how much worse this could have been. no one in the seats next to the plug everyone was seated. i mean, what could have happened if the factors in play were different? well, and we only have to look in history. i ve been working air accidents long enough to remember cases where on other aircraft a door was lost. and in some cases losing a door and this was in the 70s and 80s on these plane accidents, the aircraft was lost. and several of them the plane crashed and everyone was lost. and a couple of the cases of door losses people were sucked out, seats were sucked out of the aircraft. so losing a door is a very significant event. and she mentioned it was rapid decompression. if it happens in under sort of a split second, they call an
it was premature to announce that they would not have to look at that. let me ask you this because naturally i got several text messages yesterday asking me as if i m the expert about the safety of these max planes, not specifically the 737-9. but when you look at boeing s reputation and it s history, you had in 2018-219 that mcas issue that basically pushed the plane into nose dive and you had two separate plane accidents, one in indonesia, one on ethiopian airlines and just recently there were some production issues on these max planes, right, and it was just last week that boeing was urging airlines to inspect their planes, the 737 max planes, for a possible loose bolt in the rudder control system. so when people ask are these planes safe, or should they have concerns over the quality of the production of these planes, you know, what would you say to them? well, i think the public is already voting on that very