The 15-year-old Alaska Airlines passenger, who was sitting closest to the gate plug who went flying mid-flight, sucking his shirt off his back, fled to a different aisle and took a selfie with a stranger after the “incredible experience. .
The teenager named Jack was likely saved by the seat belt he was wearing while sitting in the same row as the plug that flew out of the Boeing plane at 16,000 feet, the other passenger in the selfie, Kelly Bartlett, told local media.
The missing door plug left a gaping hole in the side of the plane, causing the interior to rapidly depressurize.
Bartlett was sitting three rows in front of Jack when she heard a loud bang and saw oxygen masks fall in front of her as the cabin filled with gusts of wind, she told KGW8.
Then the shirtless teen jumped into the empty seat next to her.
“I heard the chaos, I didn’t know what was going on,” he told the local station. “You’re grabbing your mask and you’re just trying to figure out what’s going on. It causes panic, it’s really stressful.”
The teenager named Jack was likely saved by the seat belt he was wearing during the mid-air chaos. Kelly Bartlett
“And then in the middle of all this, someone jumps on me, plops down in the middle seat, grabs the mask and puts it on.”
Dazed and confused as to where he had come from, Bartlett noticed that his chest was red and blotchy.
But the wind blowing through the cabin made the volume too loud to hear each other speak, so Bartlett pulled out his phone and typed a message into his notes app.
The shirtless teen jumped into the empty seat next to Kelly Bartlett after the terrifying incident. KATU Dazed and confused as to where she came from, Bartlett noticed that the teen’s chest was red and blotchy. Kelly Bartlett
“You got hurt?” she wrote and then handed the phone to the teen.
“the arm is a little [sic] scratchy that was amazing my name is Jack brw [sic] Thank you for your kindness,” he wrote in the same note, according to a screenshot obtained by KGW8.
Jack said he was sitting in the middle seat, one away from the part of the plane that exploded.
The sudden depressurization ripped his shirt off his back and pulled him through the gaping hole into the dark sky along with his phone and laptop.
He was buckled up and his mother, who was sitting in the aisle seat next to him, held him down, according to the station.
His mother was also relocated to a new seat, but in a different row.
“I wasn’t in that line and I got really scared when we heard that boom and the masks fell – that was scary in itself, so I can’t imagine what he or his mother are going through,” Bartlett said.
The California-bound plane, carrying 171 passengers and six crew members, was forced to return to Portland International Airport, where it landed safely.
Miraculously, no one was seriously injured.
When the plane landed, the passengers applauded and cheered the pilots and flight crew who brought them back to the ground safely.
Jack asked Bartlett for a selfie.
Jack asked Bartlett for a selfie as they sat next to each other. Kelly Bartlett The California-bound plane was carrying 171 passengers and six crew members during the incident. fake images
“He said, ‘Let’s go take a selfie,’ and as a mom, I didn’t consider it a selfie moment, but being 15, it was his perspective. She had just gone through something incredible, was the word she used,” Bartlett told KATU2.
The boy was reunited with his mother after landing.
Despite the terrifying experience, Bartlett said she felt lucky.
“People have said that if we were higher up, it could have been a lot worse,” he told KGW8. “And it could have been even worse if Jack hadn’t had his seat belt on or something. And that’s why I feel very lucky that it happened the way it did.”
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