With Alaska Airlines temporarily grounding all of its Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft late Friday after a terrifying incident earlier in the day, memories of aviation disasters involving the 737 Max in 2018 and 2019 are being rekindled.
Fortunately, nobody died yesterday when a section of fuselage blew out for reasons still under investigation. The seat next to the gaping hole had been unoccupied, and other passengers in the row had their seatbelts on. The plane made an emergency landing in Portland, Ore., where it had departed from en route to the Los Angeles area.
