Crime & Safety
Teen On The Alaska Airlines Flight Had His Shirt Ripped Off By Blowout
Kelly Bartlett said that oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling and as she put hers on, Barlett said, someone jumped over her aisle seat.
January 9, 2024
A teenage passenger had his shirt ripped off his body when a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines plane during a flight Friday. Fellow passenger Kelly Bartlett told CBS News senior transportation and national correspondent Kris Van Cleave the teenage boy was moved from his seat after the incident and sat next to her for the remainder of the harrowing flight.
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Barlett described a "really loud boom" shortly after the Boeing 737 Max 9 took off from Portland, Oregon. "And the plane just filled with air," she said. "You could just feel the breeze. It was more than a breeze."
She said the first few minutes after that were "chaos." Oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling and as she put hers on, Barlett said, someone jumped over her aisle seat.
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Kelly Bartlett said a 15-year-old named Jack had his shirt ripped off of him when the panel of a plane blew off while it was in flight. The teen moved from the affected row to her row/Kelly Bartlett/CBS News
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