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A passenger plane lost a section of its fuselage in mid-air, forcing it to make an emergency landing in the US state of Oregon on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 returned to Portland 35 minutes into its flight to California after an outer section, including a window, fell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alaska said 177 passengers and crew were on board and “landed safely”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The airline said it would “temporarily” ground all 65 of its 737 Max 9 aircraft to conduct inspections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Federal Aviation Agency said the plane “returned safely… after the crew reported a pressurisation issue”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Boeing said it was aware of the incident and was “working to gather more information”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “A Boeing technical team stands ready to support the investigation,” it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to flight tracking websites Flightaware and FlightRadar24, the plane was a Boeing 737 Max 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alaska Airlines said the incident happened shortly after departure and that the plane had landed safely back in Portland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “While this type of occurrence is rare, our flight crew was trained and prepared to safely manage the situation,” the airline said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was flying at more than 16,000ft (4,876m) when it began its emergency descent, according to flight tracking data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC News: A passenger plane lost a section of its fuselage in mid-air, forcing it to make an emergency landing in the US state of Oregon on Friday. The Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 returned to Portland 35 minutes into its flight to California after an outer section, including a window, fell. Alaska said 177 passengers and crew were on board and “landed safely”. The airline said it would “temporarily” ground all 65 of its 737 Max 9 aircraft to conduct inspections. The US Federal Aviation Agency said the plane “returned safely… after the crew reported a pressurisation issue”…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37112,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37110\/revisions\/37112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}