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According to reports, an Alaska Airlines flight flying from Seattle to Oakland, California, had to turn back Sunday afternoon due to engine problems.
Alaska Airlines Flight 1240 was operated by a Boeing 737-700. flight tracking website FlightAware, The plane took off from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport at 12:24 PDT and returned just over an hour later.
Alaska Airlines told multiple media outlets that the plane had turned back because its left engine had stopped.
“It felt like we'd run something over with a car,” passenger Dabney Lawless said. Local TV station KIRO. Her 13-year-old son witnessed smoke rising outside the plane, and she noticed people on the plane reaching out to loved ones.
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A Boeing 737-700 operated by Alaska Airlines sits on the tarmac at Hollywood Burbank Airport in Burbank, California, Wednesday, April 28, 2021. (Bing Guang/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
“My son definitely told me he loved me, [I] “Being a good mother, I prepared for the possibility of an accident happening, but I also knew very well that it might be OK,” she said.
Neither Alaska Airlines nor Boeing responded to Fox Business' inquiries, but multiple media outlets cited the airline in a statement saying the crew assessed the flight “landed safely without incident.”
“We worked hard yesterday afternoon to assist our guests and re-arrange their travel arrangements to Auckland and apologise for any inconvenience caused,” the statement said.
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A Boeing 737-700 operated by Alaska Airlines at Hollywood Burbank Airport, Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in Burbank, California. (Bing Guang/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
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| BA | Boeing | 173.48 | -1.48 |
-0.85% |
| Arc | Alaska Airlines Group, Inc. | 35.28 | -0.44 |
-1.23% |
The Federal Aviation Administration will investigate what happened.
Another plane carried passengers to Auckland later in the evening, according to FlightAware.
Alaska Airlines is considering a merger with Hawaiian Airlines.
Elizabeth Lund, Boeing's senior vice president of quality, spoke to gathered media in front of slides detailing the plug door explosion on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 at the Renton plant on June 25, 2024. (Jennifer Buchanan/POOL/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images)
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The company made headlines earlier this year when a door plug on a Boeing 737-9 MAX aircraft exploded during a flight in January.
Boeing was criticized by the NTSB this summer. Share the details of your investigation Elizabeth Lund, Boeing's senior vice president of quality for commercial airplanes, who also serves as chair of the Enterprise Quality Operating Council, spoke about the issue at a press conference.
