On Friday, in mid-air part of the fuselage of an Alaskan Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 flight 1282, fell off, forcing an emergency landing after take-off from  Portland,  in the US state of Oregon to Ontario, California and had reached 16, 000ft ( 4,876m) when it began its emergency descent according to flight tracking data.  The airline, carrying 177 passengers and crew, landed safely back in Portland. Although some images showed the night sky visible through the gap in the fuselage, with insulation material and other debris, there were no immediate indications of the cause of the apparent structural failure, … Continue reading FAA grounds 171 Boeing 737 Max9 after mid-air blowout