Alaska Airlines Flight 536 was a scheduled flight from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to Burbank, California on 2005-12-26. The aircraft was an MD-80 that suffered a severe decompression at 26,000 feet.[1]
After a necessary dive to recover cabin pressure, the plane made an emergency landing at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. There were no injuries. The United States National Transportation Safety Board determined the cause to be the actions of a baggage handler who hit the aircraft on the ground and never reported the incident.[2] This caused a dent in the fuselage which ruptured during flight.
References
edit- ^ "Alaska jet loses cabin pressure". Seattle Post-Intelligencer (seattlepi.com). 2005-12-27. Retrieved 2009-05-25.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "NTSB Probable Cause Report". ntsb.gov. 2006-08-29. Retrieved 2009-05-25.
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