--- title: FAA Grounds 171 Boeing Planes After Forced Emergency Landing of Alaska Airlines Jet | TIME description: The Federal Aviation Administration temporarily grounded “certain Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft” on Saturday, after a plug door on one of the planes became detached and blew off during an Alaska Airlines flight from Portland, Ore. to Ontario, Calif. The plane was forced to return to Portland and make an emergency landing on Friday evening. No serious injuries were reported, according to Port of Portland’s media team. Alaska Airlines announced the grounding of its Boeing 737-9 aircrafts hours after the incident. canonical: https://time.com/video/fdS49dWy/ og:title: FAA Grounds 171 Boeing Planes After Forced Emergency Landing of Alaska Airlines Jet og:description: The Federal Aviation Administration temporarily grounded “certain Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft” on Saturday, after a plug door on one of the planes became detached and blew off during an Alaska Airlines flight from Portland, Ore. to Ontario, Calif. The plane was forced to return to Portland and make an emergency landing on Friday evening. No serious injuries were reported, according to Port of Portland’s media team. Alaska Airlines announced the grounding of its Boeing 737-9 aircrafts hours after the incident. og:url: https://time.com/video/fdS49dWy/ og:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fdS49dWy/poster.jpg?width=720 og:type: video.other twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: FAA Grounds 171 Boeing Planes After Forced Emergency Landing of Alaska Airlines Jet twitter:description: The Federal Aviation Administration temporarily grounded “certain Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft” on Saturday, after a plug door on one of the planes became detached and blew off during an Alaska Airlines flight from Portland, Ore. to Ontario, Calif. The plane was forced to return to Portland and make an emergency landing on Friday evening. No serious injuries were reported, according to Port of Portland’s media team. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: FAA Grounds 171 Boeing Planes After Forced Emergency Landing of Alaska Airlines Jet [Watch (HLS stream): FAA Grounds 171 Boeing Planes After Forced Emergency Landing of Alaska Airlines Jet](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fdS49dWy.m3u8) (3:58)  _Published 2024-01-08. The Federal Aviation Administration temporarily grounded “certain Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft” on Saturday, after a plug door on one of the planes became detached and blew off during an Alaska Airlines flight from Portland, Ore. to Ontario, Calif. The plane was forced to return to Portland and make an emergency landing on Friday evening. No serious injuries were reported, according to Port of Portland’s media team. Alaska Airlines announced the grounding of its Boeing 737-9 aircrafts hours after the incident._ --- Jan 8, 2024 8:20 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Boeing Cargo Plane Forced to Make Emergency Landing in Miami After Engine Malfunction](/video/yyZr98ok/) ### Boeing Cargo Plane Forced to Make Emergency Landing in Miami After Engine Malfunction [President Trump Says U.S Is Issuing Emergency Order to Ground Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 Jets](/video/2YfcJe2m/) ### President Trump Says U.S Is Issuing Emergency Order to Ground Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 Jets [United Airlines Plane Makes a ‘Terrifying’ Emergency Landing After Engine 'Overheats'](/video/P0hXrunU/) ### United Airlines Plane Makes a ‘Terrifying’ Emergency Landing After Engine 'Overheats' --- ## Transcript I want you to look at the emergency doors, and now we're at the end of the month or the first or third. It was just a piece of poop. Lock the door flew open immediately and at this point the flight attendant and the forward portion of the aircraft was standing and the cockpit door flew open hit the laboratory door. Door the lab laboratory laboratory door got stuck. She was very concerned that it was something somebody in there. There was no one in there, but that was stuck and she did attempt to shut the door at three times. It did eventually shut but it did blow open during the explosive decompression. They heard a bang. They hear a bang the immediately put on their oxygen masks at the time. There is a bang the door flies open open. The there is a quick reference check list that's laminated in front of them. This is not the quick reference handbook that is to the right side of the the captain but the checklist the laminated checklist flies out the door, but I do want to emphasize that the actions of the flight crew were really incredible. I imagined and just from talking with everyone who was part of the interviews. It was described as chaos very loud between the air and everything going. On around them and it was very violent when the rapid decompression in the door was expelled out of the plane. So there was a lot going on and I just really want to we want we want to thank the actions of the flight crew that that was equally heroic that just the flight crew entirely did an excellent job. The cockpit voice recorder was completely over written. There is nothing on the cockpit voice recorder of the door plug and said he found it in his backyard. Thank you Bob, please we will I will reach out to you so that we so that I can thank you myself. 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