Alaska Airlines's passengers recount mid-air horror

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A spine-chilling incident occurred on Friday when a part of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 planes body and a window blowout in the air, forcing the flight to make an emergency landing in Oregon.X)..

One of the passengers on board captured a shocking image of the damage and shared it with a local media outlet..

Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California, experienced an incident this evening soon after departure, the airline said in an email to The Associated Press..

Videos capturing the incident have swiftly circulated across the internet, depicting passengers securing their oxygen masks and fastening seat belts after an emergency was declared mid-flight..

The plane involved in the incident was a Boeing 737-9 MAX, a model that was certified by the FAA just two months ago, according to online records..

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