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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Alaska Airlines: Warning light had shown on flight in days before blowout over Oregon

An Alaska Airlines plane that suffered an in-flight blowout over Oregon had been barred from making certain journeys after a warning light came on in the days leading up to the incident.

The Boeing jetliner made a dramatic emergency landing after a plug door was torn from its fuselage, shortly after it left Portland, Oregon, on Friday en route to Ontario, California.

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