Alaska Airlines Passengers Offered $1,500 Compensation After Flight Fiasco

Passengers heard a pop and loud bang, later revealed to be the door plug near row 26 flinging off mid-flight as they were nearly 16,000 feet in the air. That missing door plug was found in the backyard of a Portland teacher.

The burst was on the port side, leaving a large hole where some passengers’ belongings were sucked through, including a 15-year-old boy’s shirt, which was ripped from his body.

“There was chaos for a couple of minutes while everyone grabbed their masks and the people in the row of the missing wall found new seats on the other side of the plane,” passenger Kelly Bartlett wrote about her experience.