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An Alaska Airlines flight traveling from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California, had to make an emergency landing Friday night after a portion of the aircraft blew out mid-air.

Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 left Portland International Airport at 4:52 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, according to the public flight tracking website FlightAware. The aircraft returned to Portland and landed safely a little before 5:30 p.m.

Social media video obtained by CBS News appeared to show that one of the passenger window panels had been blown out.

The aircraft reached approximately 16,000 feet about six minutes into the flight before beginning its descent, according to FlightAware.

The jet had 174 passengers and six crew members aboard. In a statement provided to CBS News, Alaska Airlines said that Flight No. 1282 "experienced an incident this evening soon after departure" and "landed safely back" in Portland but did not elaborate.

Immediately after the incident, the pilot radioed to the air traffic controller, declaring that the flight had depressurized.

"We're declaring an emergency," the pilot said. "We do need to come down to 10,000."

The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that the crew reported a "pressurization issue." Both the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board said they were launching investigations.

CBS News learned that the plane, a Boeing 737-MAX 9, had been recently delivered to the airline in October.

This type of aircraft comes equipped with a rear emergency exit door, used mainly by international airlines, and has a seat configuration that allows for more passengers on the plane. Most U.S. airliners don't use that configuration and design the area to appear as a window from the inside of the aircraft.

In a statement sent to CBS News, Boeing was "working to gather more information" and was in contact with Alaska Airlines.

Boeing said it has a technical team standing by to support the investigation.

Alaska Airlines chartered a replacement flight following the ordeal to bring passengers from Portland to Ontario.

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Alaska Airlines grounds all Boeing 737 Max 9 pending investigation, inspection and full maintenance

A statement from Alaska Airlines CEO, Ben Minicucci:
At Alaska Airlines, safety is our foundational value and the most important thing we focus on every day. Following tonight’s event on Flight 1282, we have decided to take the precautionary step of temporarily grounding our fleet of 65 Boeing 737-9 aircraft. Each aircraft will be returned to service only after completion of full maintenance and safety inspections. We anticipate all inspections will be completed in the next few days.

I am personally committed to doing everything we can to conduct this review in a timely and transparent way.

We are working with Boeing and regulators to understand what occurred tonight, and will share updates as more information is available. The NTSB is investigating this event and we will fully support their investigation.

My heart goes out to those who were on this flight – I am so sorry for what you experienced. I am so grateful for the response of our pilots and flight attendants. We have teams on the ground in Portland assisting passengers and are working to support guests who are traveling in the days ahead.

-Ben

Information for impacted guests
Guests whose flights have been impacted by this grounding are being notified with guidance on next steps and are also encouraged to visit alaskaair.com for self-service options. We deeply apologize to our guests and are working to reaccommodate everyone as quickly as possible.

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In Psquare voice

See Danger

Thank God for safety

Make this year calm down small abeg.

Thank God , no life was lost

E no too early for January transfer window to open so?

If na nigeria no,them go start saying Village people at work or na end time ...

emekanairaland:
Make this year calm down small abeg.

Lol. The year too no wan gree for anybody.

emekanairaland:
Make this year calm down small abeg.

It is not the fault of the Year or the Planes, this below destroyed their Health.

So no be only in naija this kind thing dey happen, but trust naija airline na to give everyone hand fan😆😆

Expect lawsuits to start flying ✈ ✈ ✈

That is not window

Be like edo airways spirits want to board the flight by fire by force

Baba Chicago dey inside?

V

If na naija plane now, some people go say na tokumbo plane, that's why

Luckily none of the passengers got sucked out of the aircraft while it was at a high altitude.

This could have been a very big disaster if it had happened after the aircraft climbed to its maximum cruising height of about 30,000 feet!

If the person wey near that window no buckle him belt, na once air pressure go blow am commot. Lessons to learn never to ignore safety standards. Those safety tools are put there for reasons.

We will not jam problem this year

Always Boeing, they should be more careful with their products, we don't hear about issues with products from Airbus and other manufacturers

Thank God no life was lost

Jesus

😄 USA falling apart. All their planes crashing

Wahala

They should be thankful that the wings are intact, accidents be like We Meuve...

Hmm


Grateful no lives were lost.

Woooo.
I can only imagine how scary that was for everyone on board

Where is the "Sir, this is the emergency exit, and these are the things you should do in case of emergency" Hope he did not go with the emergency

Disaster averted. Nice move

If na naija, na blood of jesus you go dey hear

Nice job by the crew …
Depressurization at 16,000 altitude, descended to 10,000 so passengers can breathe normally, then made a safe emergency landing … no single casualty…. Nice one 👍