2024-01-10 00:44:01
Faye’s son was sitting in the seat right in front of the hole. We can see in this image that the backrest remained twisted and tilted backwards in relation to the other seats in the row. HANDOUT / AFP
The mother of a teenager described how she held her son as he, sitting near the torn fuselage section, was sucked out of the plane.
Each day that passes brings its share of revelations about what really happened inside the Boeing 737 MAX, which lost a piece of its fuselage over Portland last Friday. And the least we can say is that Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 indeed came close to disaster. Daily life Seattle Times obtained the testimony from the mother of the teenager who was sitting in the seat right in front of the gaping hole that was created when a cabin panel literally flew awaysome 20 minutes after takeoff.
Faye, who identified herself as a former journalist and lawyer from the Portland area, was sitting right next to her son. He is the 15-year-old boy whose photo circulated on social networks, shirtless, face blurred, and who until now we did not really understand how he lost his T-shirt in the incident.
Faye’s testimony is enlightening. She remembers in the columns of the newspaper hearing a…
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