Teacher Finds Alaska Airlines Flight’s Blown Out Door Plug in His Backyard

The piece of the fuselage that blew out of an Alaska Airlines plane during a flight Friday turned up in the backyard of a school teacher, the National Transportation Safety Board announced Sunday.

The so-called door plug—an exit on aircraft that is permanently closed off, or “plugged”—tore out of the side of a Boeing 737 Max 9 after takeoff from Portland, Oregon, causing the cabin to depressurize and forcing the crew to make an emergency landing.

The missing piece of the fuselage was finally found Sunday by a Portland teacher in the Cedar Hills neighborhood, NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy announced. Identifying the teacher only as “Bob,” Homendy said she was “very relieved” that the door plug had been found after earlier telling reporters it was a “key missing component” in the investigation into why the emergency happened.

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