Imagine sitting on a plane and the window section next to you blows out in mid flight and your shirt is sucked off you

Always keep your seatbelt securely fastened while seated.

Jesus Christ I bet that mother hasn't let that kid out of her clutches since.

It was a new shirt too.

That is so fucked up!

Alaska Airlines sucks.

[quote] The seat next to the destroyed section of the plane was unoccupied but the force ripped the shirt off a teenager in the middle seat, leaving his skin reddened and legs bruised from the sudden decompression, passengers said.

To have that happen to you as an impressionable teenager?

That kid is never going to fly again.

This is entirely Boeing’s fault. The plane was only 10 weeks old.

Here’s the Reddit thread from a passenger who was on board.

I’m about to get on a 10 hour plane flight… (gulp)

[quote]Jesus Christ I bet that mother hasn't let that kid out of her clutches since.

The luck.

Makes me feel better about having a middle seat.

It's making me rethink window seats and seatbelts, that's for sure.

Fucking hell this is (rare) but unsettling.

Luckily, I was in that window seat.

No, I was in that window seat.

[quote] The seat next to the destroyed section of the plane was unoccupied but the force ripped the shirt off a teenager in the middle seat, leaving his skin reddened and legs bruised from the sudden decompression,

I was that decompressing force!

That is absolutely terrifying.

Remember that Hawaiian Air flight years ago where that happened and a few people were sucked out? Plane had to fly for quite awhile with a whole big section open.

Alaska Air just grounded all of their 737s-9s. 65 aircraft in total.

Your move, Boeing.

And my fat ass loves a window seat. This won't change for me.

Looks like it wasn’t part of the fuselage but a “blank” door where an emergency exit would be in versions with a high density seating configuration. A clear case of shoddy assembly quality and Boeing is in for a world of hurt and lawsuits as other airlines ground their aircraft for inspections, resulting in cancelled flights, lost revenue, reputation, etc.

That kid may have “lost his shirt” but he’s now set for life.

The passengers from the Japan crash lived because they left their luggage behind. This wouldn't happen in USA.

Xanax anyone?

Well at least flying is still safe than taking a horse and carriage!

*safer ☕️

I was in Hawaii about two weeks after that, r16. I flew on Aloha (it was Aloha, not Hawaiian) and the flight attendants were obviously still very shaken up about the woman who got sucked out. She was an older woman and was working in first class when the whole roof above first class just came off and she flew out into the sky.

Another flight attendant was badly injured and the third heroically did everything she could to help the injured attendant and the passengers.

It was eerie hearing them talk about it. We kept our seatbelts on the whole time.

I will gladly take the window seat and protect you in case of fuselage failure! Just bring me some pie!

The 737MAX is a colossal failure.

Invest in VR and the metaverse after all! Outside scary!

Amateur.

I'll need to conduct a Congressional hearing to inspect the shirtless teen!

Oh it was a Boeing 737 max. Who knew?

Unless I'm in Business or First, I'm an aisle seat person and have been so for years. Main reason, I don't want to be boxed in at the window by two other passengers. As a kid I had plenty of window seats, so the novelty of looking out at the sky and terrain below has been gone for decades.

After that Southwest flight several years ago where the window failed and partially sucked out that poor lady who later died, I also think (true or not) the aisle might be a little safer. I've also heard in the past that it's statistically safer to sit in the aft/rear section behind the wings and engines. I forget exactly why -- perhaps because you're a bit further away from the wing and center fuel tanks, as well as the area of fuselage that could be struck if an engine lost a turbine/propeller due to a bird strike or some other freak failure?

Anyway, I agree with R26 that the MAX line has been a failure. Instead of legacy McDonnell Douglas management running Boeing for years like a Wall Street slot machine for maximized short-term shareholder returns, they should have been **innovating** and designing a new state-of-the-art fleet lineup to replace the aging 737. The MAX is the sort of lazy, slapdash, rushed-to-market solution you get when aggressive industry M&A has taken the need for competition out of the game. The poor passengers and families of Lion Air 610, Ethiopian 302, and now Alaska 1282 are the collateral damage. Shameful.

The 737 Max is just a bad plane.

Man, Boeing just cannot catch a break. People always sound almost gleeful about hating on the 737 Max, but nobody wins in this scenario. This may cost thousands of jobs and seriously harm the greater economy.

R33 Boeing did this to themselves, through poor management and years of little competition due to M&A before Airbus finally ate their lunch. Watch the Frontline at R32 or the Netflix documentary to understand why.

It’s earned a reputation akin to the DC-10. Both planes were fine in concept but execution was lacking.

R33 There’s no reason to be gleeful about tenths failure of the MAX. We’re all just angry that Boeing still allowed this plane to operate after cutting corners just to bring a flawed plane to market. We’re angry that lives were lost in the process. Boeing got off way too easy imo for danger they put the public in.

[quote] Luckily, I was in that window seat.

[quote] No, I was in that window seat.

Girls, girls - I think we ALL know who was in that window seat!

Imagine instead of being sucked ON a plane, you get sucked OUT OF a plane.

Dat's da suck job!

I thought there were issues with Airbus too. I thought I'd read about pilots getting false readings and difficulty regaining control from such readings???

Don’t forget about that pilot that was sucked out of the windshield and survived after crew held onto his legs.

Adding the pic would be helpful.

The horror of my bared moobs flapping in the torrent until a safe landing is enough to prevent me from flying altogether. I’d have to consider tasseled pasties at the very least.

[quote] That kid may have “lost his shirt” but he’s now set for life.

Sounds like Boeing may end up losing its shirt.

The phone survived.

United inspections have found loose bolts. Boeing needs to fire their management responsible for quality control.

money has become way too important in this country at the expense of people.

This would've been much less... complicated.

[quote]Boeing needs to fire their management responsible for quality control.

They outsourced the basic task of building the fuselage, presumably to save money. I doubt they even have any quality control management anymore.

The fuselage is built by Spirit Aerosystems and shipped to Boeing via rail in one piece. They have outsourced the entire manufacturing process and only the final client specifications are done by Boeing.

Death by window suction sounds soooooooooooooo bad. It’s horrific. A woman got sucked up through the roof?!? That means it happened in a split second, I bet if you blinked, you missed her shooting up out of the plane, my god, that is horrific.

"Boeing" is the sound 737 MAX 9 doors make when they pop off at 16,000ft".

This is terrifying. And yes, I know I didn’t add anything to the discussion.

But holy shit.

[quote]—Probably can’t say planes are safer than cars anymore

I'll take a flight on a 737Max over a ride in any Tesla, any day of the week.

R50, the plug door plug was originally installed by Spirit, but Boeing took the door off to do interior work and then put the plug back. So it is indeed a Boeing issue, not Spirit.

Shirley you can't be serious!

R55 Neither Boeing or the investigators have confirmed who did the final installation of the plug and we don’t have all the facts yet to determine what caused the plug to detach it could have been Boeing but it could also be a manufacturing flaw by Spirit Aerospace who manufactured and installed the plug before delivery to Boeing. Metallurgical analysis will be needed before blaming Boeing for not screwing this up (pun intended).

Found the aforementioned "shirtless teen."

Lol.

Poor kid must have been freezing!

Just to be clear - it wasn't a window - it was the ghost door wasn't it? (unused and sealed over door)

R16 - it was United flight 811. 9 people sucked out. Must have been terrifying.

That poor kid who got his shirt sucked off. He must have been shitting bricks.

From R58's video: that poor kid who got his shirt sucked off. He must have been shitting bricks sitting next to it.

What, again?!

Not one critical comment about the teen's body? Only displays of empathy? Is this DL?

So there was an Aloha Airlines flight over Hawaii where the roof tore off in 1988.

Then there was a United Airlines flight between Hawaii and Sydney where the fuselage tore off in 1989.

And apparently, this specific airplane was used between Hawaii and the US West Coast numerous times between November 2023 and December 26, 2023.

So WTF is it about flying over Hawaii, that makes airplanes rip open?? Is it all the salt air from flying over the ocean?

When you see the photo of the shirtless teen at R58, you'll notice that the photo credit goes to "Kelly Bartlett," who is the lady sitting next to him.

Why on EARTH would she have taken a photo of this shirtless boy, after he just went through this traumatic event?

"Hey, I know you almost got sucked out of this plane, and you probably have PTSD, but can I take a photo of you without your shirt on? Thanks!"

WTF is she thinking?

R65, she was thinking "This is a once-in-a-lifetime event and this is the luckiest kid in the world right now. It should be captured."

R63, 👋 Kevin Spacey.

Flights that go to Hawaii from the mainland must be ETOPS certified and this aircraft was however it was pulled from flying any ETOPS flights after the cabin pressure alerts started so the airline was fully aware they had an issue to go over water without diversions close by (2hours) but figured it was ok with flying the aircraft over land with the same issue, this is going to be hard to explain away to the public during their apology tour.

R16/R24: I've seen the Mayday: Air Disaster episode about the 1988 Aloha incident multiple times. It's a fucking miracle that only one person died/was sucked out (there's a memorial honoring CB Lansing at the Honolulu airport). But it's an even bigger miracle that the pilots were able to fly that thing for 15 minutes (and land it safely) with one-third of its upper fuselage missing & damaged controls. Those pilots were serious bad-asses.

The 1990 TV movie about it (starring Wayne Rogers, Connie Sellecca & Ana Alicia) is pretty good, as TV movies go.

Well at least the passengers didn't have to eat each other to stay alive!

Going to look up the film I was only aware of the Air Disasters episode.

Wait, are there photos of the shirtless teenaged boy on this thread? Where? WHERE?!!

“My shirt! My shirt!”

That teen was probably saying "God, I'll give you the shirt off my back for just one more day!"

Here you go R72, you desperate whore!

It's really nothing special.

Wo is going to play the shirtless teen in the inevitable movie? Our Timmotayyyy?

Did the boy have to reimburse the airline for the pillow sucked out of the plane?

[quote] Did the boy have to reimburse the airline for the pillow sucked out of the plane?

Absolutely.

We've also billed his credit card for a change of seat charge, using our oxygen mask charge, texting while in the air charge, deluxe window seat view charge, no clothing charge, and inconveniencing the other passengers charge.

He's not going to get away with this for free, that's for damned sure!

Seanathan found someone's phone!

Word...

Hearing the lady tell the story from her perspective, and then Erin Burnett reading the account from the mother of the teen boy, it just sounds horrifying.

To think that her son could have been sucked out of that plane and killed, is just unimaginable.