Your vacation probably isn't in any jeopardy after the Alaska Airlines blowout

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Image from the NTSB investigation of the Jan. 5 accident involving Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on a Boeing 737-9 MAX. Captured on Jan. 7.
The Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9.

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Alaska Airlines cancels 230 flights as the 737 Max 9 is grounded after mid-flight door blowout

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An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 plane sits at a gate at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on January 6, 2024 in Seattle, Washington.
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9.

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The Alaska Airlines plane that lost a panel midflight was banned from flying over water because its pressurization warning light kept going off: NTSB

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A Boeing 737-990 (ER) operated by Alaska Airlines takes off from JFK Airport on August 24, 2019 in the Queens borough of New York City.
A Boeing 737-990 (ER) operated by Alaska Airlines

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Boeing calls an all-hands employee meeting to discuss safety following Alaska Airlines incident

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Boeing CEO David Calhoun wears a blue jumper under a suit speaking in front of an airplane during a joint press event with United Airlines at the Boeing manufacturing facility in North Charleston, on December 13, 2022
Boeing CEO David Calhoun.

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The NTSB is asking the public to help find the missing piece of the Alaska Airlines plane that blew off mid-flight

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The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating how a "mid-cabin door plug" blew off a Boeing 737 Max 9 mid-flight on Friday.

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Woman who says she was on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 that blew out a door midair said she was afraid the plane would 'nosedive at any second'

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An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 plane sits at a gate at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Alaska Airlines grounded its 737 MAX 9 planes after part of a fuselage blew off during a flight from Portland Oregon to Ontario, California.
An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 plane sits at a gate at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

The Alaska Airlines flight that lost a chunk of the plane mid-flight could have been 'much more tragic' if someone was seated next to the door, NTSB says

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A white Alaska Airlines plane with blue details takes off.
An Alaska Airlines flight takes off.

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Alaska Airlines passenger describes her terror after she was 'jolted awake' when a hole ripped open in the plane's fuselage

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A Boeing 737-990 (ER) operated by Alaska Airlines takes off from JFK Airport on August 24, 2019 in the Queens borough of New York City.
A Boeing 737-990 (ER) operated by Alaska Airlines

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Audio reveals how an Alaska Airlines pilot calmly performed an emergency landing after a hole blew in plane's side

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An Alaska Airlines plane.
An Alaska Airlines plane.

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FAA orders grounding of some Boeing 737 planes after an Alaska Airlines flight lost part of its fuselage in air

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Alaska Airlines grounded its 737 MAX 9 planes after part of a fuselage blew off during a flight from Portland Oregon to Ontario, California.
Alaska Airlines grounded its 737 MAX 9 planes after part of a fuselage blew off during a flight from Portland Oregon to Ontario, California.

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