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On 07 Jan 2024, "Trump - Inmate Number P01135809"
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Portland, where they let mentally ill homosexuals touch aircraft that
normal people will travel in. What is wrong with that picture?

Passengers on an Alaska Airlines flight that was forced to make an
emergency landing when part of the fuselage fell off midair said the
ordeal was loud and terrifying.

Evan Granger, a passenger seated in exit row seat 16F, said he heard a
"loud boom" followed by “a gust of wind coming in" at about 20 minutes
into the flight on Friday. He said both of his ears became plugged.

"I didn't want to look back to see what was happening," Granger told NBC
News. "My focus in that moment was just breathe into the oxygen mask and
trust that the flight crew will will do everything they can to keep us
safe."

Granger acknowledged "there are so many things that had to go right in
order for all of us to have survived," adding that he is "very grateful"
that they were able to land safely.

Elizabeth Le of Portland, Oregon, said the flight was about 20 minutes
into its route from Portland to Ontario, California, on Friday when she
heard a loud noise.

"All of a sudden I heard like a big bang and I didn't know exactly what
was going on, but I look up and the oxygen masks were hanging from the ceiling," Le told Southern California news outlet OC Hawk. "And then I
look to my left and there's this huge chunk, part of the airplane is like missing."

Le said "extremely loud" wind rushed into the plane, but passengers stayed
in their seats and kept their seatbelts on.

“I couldn’t really think straight because of how loud the wind was,” she
said.

She added: “I just couldn’t believe my eyes. There’s a gaping hole. You
could see the city and the stars and everything just outside of the
window. It was crazy.”

Le said no one was sitting in the window seat of the row directly next to
where the part of the plane fell off, but a mom and son were in the middle
and aisle seats of that row.

Le said she heard afterward that the mom had to hold her teenage son
tightly to keep him from being sucked out of the plane, adding that his
shirt had flown off and he looked very red, likely from the intense wind.

Another passenger, Jessica Montoya, told OC Hawk the plane had just
reached 10,000 feet when part of the wall seemingly detached.

"We flew for another three or four minutes, and then we heard this pop and
all the oxygen masks came down," she said. "I wasn't afraid. I don't know
why. No one really screamed or anything."

Montoya said she spoke to someone after the incident who told her that his shirt and phone were "sucked out" of the aircraft.

"It was a trip from hell," Montoya said.

A photo from a passenger showed an entire panel missing from a side of the aircraft next to a row of seats. The panel, known as a door plug, detached
from the plane at about 16,000 feet in the air, National Transportation
Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy said during a news conference Saturday night.

Passenger Stan Sigstad also described hearing a "pop noise" followed by
strong wind that came "forward and then it came back, it hit me in the
face," he said.

Sigstad also said he wasn't afraid.

"I was a little bit nervous," he said to OC Hawk. "But I told God, 'I
trust you.'"

The Federal Aviation Administration said the crew had "reported a pressurization issue" when the plane part disengaged, leaving a gaping
hole.

Le, Montoya and Sigstad all noted how surprisingly calm the passengers and
crew were during the flight.

Montoya praised the flight attendants for staying calm and Sigstad added
the "calmness" of the pilot's voice is what "kept everyone calm."

Flight 1282, which was carrying 174 passengers and six crew members,
landed safely back at Portland International Airport.

The FAA ordered some Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft temporarily grounded for inspections, affecting about 171 planes worldwide.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alaska-airlines-passengers-describe- moment-piece-plane-fell-rcna132650

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