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00:10 >> Seattle, Alaska, we just had a crash, we're in a decline emergency,
00:28 we're down to 10,000.
00:30 We just depressurized, we're gonna maintain 10,000, and
00:34 we need to return back to Portland.
00:36 >> Portland, Alaska, 1282, emergency aircraft,
00:39 we're now leveling 12,000 and a left turn heading 340.
00:42 >> 1282, call and approach, good afternoon, you still have information, do you?
00:46 >> Yeah, we do have information, do we?
00:47 We'd like to get lower if possible.
00:49 >> 1282, just gonna maintain 7,000.
00:52 Alaska, 1282, did you fire, did they fire an emergency or
00:54 did you need to return to?
00:56 >> Yes, we are emergency, we are depressurized, but we do need to return back to.
01:00 We have 177 passengers, we're at 18, 8.
01:04 >> [INAUDIBLE] The emergency aircraft will be the next arrival,
01:07 they are on a two mile final, and you can expect access to the runway after they land.
01:12 >> The cockpit door flew open immediately, and at this point,
01:16 the flight attendant in the forward portion of the aircraft was standing.
01:22 And the cockpit door flew open, hit the laboratory door,
01:28 that door, the laboratory door got stuck.
01:34 She was very concerned that was somebody in there, there was no one in there,
01:39 but that was stuck, and she did attempt to shut the door three times.
01:47 It did eventually shut, but it did blow open during the explosive decompression.
01:54 They heard a bang, they hear a bang, they immediately put on their oxygen masks.
02:01 At the time there is a bang, the door flies open.
02:08 There is a quick reference checklist that's laminated in front of them.
02:16 This is not the quick reference handbook, that is to the right side of the captain,
02:24 but the checklist, the laminated checklist flies out the door.
02:28 But I do want to emphasize that the actions of the flight crew were really incredible.
02:34 I imagine, and just from talking with everyone who was part of the interviews,
02:44 it was described as chaos, very loud between the air and everything going on around them.
02:56 And it was very violent when the rapid decompression and the door was expelled out of the plane.
03:08 So there was a lot going on, and I just really want to thank the actions of the flight crew.
03:16 That was equally heroic. Just the flight crew entirely did an excellent job.
03:22 The cockpit voice recorder was completely overwritten.
03:26 There is nothing on the cockpit voice recorder.
03:30 Of the door plug, Ann said he found it in his backyard.
03:36 Thank you, Bob. Please, I will reach out to you so that I can thank you myself.
03:45 Can I narrow down where it landed?
03:49 I can say that Bob is a school teacher in Portland.
03:57 Portland.
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