Boeing door torn off in mid-flight: “My shoes ended up being sucked in,” says a passenger. Cuong Tran was one of 117 occupants of Alaska Airlines flight 1282, during which a door of the Boeing 737-9 Max tore off on January 5.
The 40-year-old man, sitting with his friend one row from the faulty door, was injured in the leg, but could well have stayed there. The plane finally turned around and made an emergency landing in Portland, where it had just left.