In the United States last Friday, parts of the Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft that came off have been searched all over Oregon. The decisive piece of the puzzle has been found in the teacher’s backyard.
A door panel that detached from an Alaska Airlines plane mid-flight has been found Bobfrom the backyard of a teacher named – in Portland, Oregon.
On Friday, the Boeing 737 Max 9 plane had to make an emergency landing in Portland, USA, when a piece of the plane’s fuselage broke off less than ten minutes after takeoff. Six people were slightly injured.
After the incident, 171 Boeing planes of the same model were grounded in the United States and elsewhere in the world. In the United States, the ban has caused the cancellation of hundreds of flights.
The aircraft model’s flight ban only ends when the US Federal Aviation Administration has confirmed the model’s safety.
In the accident investigation, the key is to find the parts that have come off the machine.
The decisive piece of the puzzle was found late Sunday evening in a teacher’s backyard on the outskirts of Portland.
A teacher named Bob sent the authorities pictures of the piece he found in his backyard, said the chairman of the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Jennifer Homendy.
According to Homendy, it could be judged from the pictures that it is at least part of the door panel detached from the machine. Authorities are on their way to retrieve the piece so it can be examined.
– Thanks to Bob. We are very relieved, Homendy said.
The frame part in question is a panel that contains the door connection. Different airlines use different emergency exit route arrangements in their aircraft models. The accident plane did not have a door in the panel, but a kind of cover plate.
The Norwegian Transport Safety Board published a picture of the door panel in question in the X message service. It is said to weigh just under 30 kilograms.
The market reacted strongly to the accident. On Monday morning, Boeing’s stock was down 9 percent.
The phone survived the fall
The Oregonians have also accidentally found two iPhones in the terrain, which are believed to belong to the plane’s passengers.
The second phone was found by a game designer from Portland Seanathan Bates, who told about a special discovery in the X message service. Bates writes that he found an unlocked phone on the side of the road in a Portland suburb.
The phone was in airplane mode, and the baggage claim for the Alaskan Airlines flight was found in its email application.
There was a broken charger attached to the phone, so Bates thinks it was torn out by force from the hole in the frame.
One of the passengers of the flight saw the phone sucked from the passenger’s hand out of the hole in the fuselage, The BBC reports.
Source: AFP
The story was updated on January 8, 2024 at 4:46 p.m. Information about the fall in Boeing’s stock was added to the story.
The matter has been corrected on January 8, 2024 at 17:00.