It was pure luck that no one was sitting in 2 Alaska Airlines seats that feds say got 'torqued' when a door blew off mid-flight

Mon, 01/08/2024 - 12:05

image of official looking at hole in plane — Investigator-in-charge John Lovell examines the area where the plane's door plug had been.
National Transportation Safety Board

An Alaska Airlines flight had a door plug blow off the plane mid-flight on Friday.
The violent force of the panel ripping off the plane caused two of the seats to "torque," feds said.
And those damaged seats just so happened to be two of the only seven empty seats on the plane.

A door-like panel blew off the side of an Alaska Airlines plane mid-flight on Friday — and two of the most damaged seats on the plane just so happened to have no one sitting in them.