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Alaska Airlines flight makes emergency landing after window blows out mid-flight as child who sat near hole loses shirt
By Social Links for Patrick Reilly and
Social Links for Nicholas McEntyre
Published Jan. 6, 2024
Updated Jan. 6, 2024, 3:39 a.m. ET
An Alaska Airlines flight turned into a nightmare when a section of the plane blew out mid-flight, reportedly sucking out passengers’ belongings and forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing in Portland.
The Ontario, California-bound plane departed Portland International Airport at 4:52 p.m. Friday but returned just 35 minutes later following the terrifying ordeal, according to data from flight tracking website Flight Aware.
Shortly after takeoff, the flight, which had 171 passengers and 6 crew members aboard, “experienced an incident,” Alaska Airlines said in a statement, without divulging further.
Passengers described the chaos as people’s cell phones and belongings were sucked out of the gaping hole in the plane.
One passenger told KPTV that a child had to be held down in his seat by his mother.
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