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From: Eric9/12/2024 12:53:26 PM
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Alaska blowout pilot: ‘I saw calm, quiet, hundreds of eyes staring right back at me’

Sep. 12, 2024 at 9:20 am Updated Sep. 12, 2024 at 9:24 am


A Boeing 737 MAX 9 lost a fuselage panel over Portland on Jan. 5, leaving a gaping hole in the side of the plane flown by Alaska Airlines. (National Transportation Safety Board via The Associated Press)

By
Beth Slovic
oregonlive.com


The international Air Line Pilots Association will present an award Thursday afternoon to First Officer Emily Wiprud of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, which made an emergency landing in Portland on Jan. 5 after a door panel blew off the Boeing 737-9 Max fuselage shortly after the flight took off for California.

On the eve of the awards presentation, CBS News aired an interview with Wiprud, her first public remarks about the harrowing flight in which no passenger died.

Wiprud describes hearing an explosion and then feeling a rush of air as the force of the blowout pushed her body forward. She said she had trouble hearing as she spoke with air traffic controllers about the need to immediately return to Portland International Airport.

Cuong Tran and Huy Tran were on board Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 when a panel blew off mid-flight. This video was taken by Huy as the plane returned to Portland International Airport. (Courtesy of Wisner Baum law firm)

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“I didn’t know there was a hole in the airplane until we landed,” she told CBS News.

She also described her emotional response when she opened the door of the flight deck and saw passengers for the first time since taking off: “I opened the flight deck door and I saw calm, quiet, hundreds of eyes staring right back at me.”

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It wasn’t until a few moments later that she understood all passengers were safely onboard. “I was so thankful,” she said. “I was in shock, disbelief. Everybody was there.”

Beth Slovic

seattletimes.com

My comments:

I have been an FAA Certified Flight instructor for forty years.

The biggest lesson my first flight instructor said to me as a student pilot in Pullman, Wa (Pullman Moscow regional airport) way back in 1974 was "Keep flying the aircraft until it stops moving".

Well done Captain and FO!

Eric
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