Seat belt saved passenger’s life on Boeing Alaska Airlines flight that suffered door panel blowout, new lawsuit claims
A seatbelt saved the life of a passenger seated just one row behind the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 door panel that blew out midair in January, according to a new lawsuit.
A seatbelt saved the life of a passenger seated just one row behind the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 door panel that blew out midair in January, according to a new lawsuit.
Cuong Tran’s body lifted out of his seat, suction tore off his shoes and socks, and his leg was injured when a door panel blew off the fuselage right in front of his row 27 window seat on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on Jan. 5 over Portland, Oregon, a new lawsuit filed Thursday contends.
Tran, from Upland, California, credits his seat belt with holding him in place when air rushed out of the gaping hole at 16,000 feet in the air, lawyers in the case said in a news release.
Cuong Tran.Courtesy Timothy A. LorangerThe suit, filed in King County Superior Court on behalf of seven passengers including Tran against Boeing, Alaska Airlines, and Spirit AeroSystems, is just the latest one filed following the flight mishap.
The plaintiffs claim the blowout caused them to suffer physical and psychological trauma. In Tran’s case, his leg was “jerked so violently that his foot was injured when it got trapped in the seat structure in front of him,” the news release said.
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