<story><title>Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/06/alaska-airlines-grounds-boeing-737-max-9-planes-after-mid-air-window-blowout</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MOARDONGZPLZ</author><text>For any other Americans like myself trying to conceptualize exactly how wide this hole was, imagine about 1&amp;#x2F;150th of a football field.</text></item><item><author>w3ll_w3ll_w3ll</author><text>Passenger Diego Murillo, who had been on his way to Ontario, California, said the gap was &amp;quot;as wide as a refrigerator&amp;quot; and described hearing a &amp;quot;really loud bang&amp;quot; as the oxygen masks dropped from above.&lt;p&gt;He told KPTV: &amp;quot;They said there was a kid in that row whose shirt was sucked off him and out of the plane and his mother was holding onto him to make sure he didn&amp;#x27;t go with it.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;world-us-canada-67899564&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;world-us-canada-67899564&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sschueller</author><text>The refrigerator comparison also doesn&amp;#x27;t help much because American fridges are much larger then European ones.</text></comment>
<story><title>Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after mid-air window blowout</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/06/alaska-airlines-grounds-boeing-737-max-9-planes-after-mid-air-window-blowout</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>MOARDONGZPLZ</author><text>For any other Americans like myself trying to conceptualize exactly how wide this hole was, imagine about 1&amp;#x2F;150th of a football field.</text></item><item><author>w3ll_w3ll_w3ll</author><text>Passenger Diego Murillo, who had been on his way to Ontario, California, said the gap was &amp;quot;as wide as a refrigerator&amp;quot; and described hearing a &amp;quot;really loud bang&amp;quot; as the oxygen masks dropped from above.&lt;p&gt;He told KPTV: &amp;quot;They said there was a kid in that row whose shirt was sucked off him and out of the plane and his mother was holding onto him to make sure he didn&amp;#x27;t go with it.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;world-us-canada-67899564&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;world-us-canada-67899564&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>louthy</author><text>Or, 3 bald eagles</text></comment>