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2024-01-20NTSB Investigators Examining Aircraft Parts
Two NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) investigators, identifiable by their agency-marked jackets, handle a fuselage door plug panel — with a window cutout visible — recovered in a residential neighborhood. This corresponds to the January 2024 Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 incident in which a door plug blew out of a Boeing 737 Max 9 shortly after takeoff from Portland International Airport. -
2024-01-09NTSB Investigators Examining Aircraft Debris
Two NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) investigators, wearing agency-marked jackets, examine and recover a large aircraft door plug panel found on a residential lawn. The panel, which has a window cutout, is consistent with the door plug that detached from Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 (Boeing 737 MAX 9) in January 2024, with debris recovered in the Portland, Oregon area. -
2023-12-24Alaska Airlines Flight Attendants Strike with Pay Us or Chaos Signs
Alaska Airlines flight attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO, demonstrate with yellow picket signs reading 'Alaska Makes $$$$ We Can't Make Rent' and 'Pay Us or Chaos.' The protest reflects a labor dispute over wages between the union and Alaska Airlines management. -
2023-07-28Aircraft Engine Failure with Fire During Flight
A Boeing 777 engine (Pratt & Whitney PW4000) is shown on fire and with its cowling torn away, photographed from a passenger window seat. This image is widely recognized as being from United Airlines Flight 328, which suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff from Denver International Airport on February 20, 2021. -
For Port of Seattle Commission, vote Todd Curtis
As we’ve written many times, Port of Seattle Commissioner is the most consequential vote on any ballot for airport community voters. But it is also the most difficult choice because position information on the issues we care about most is so difficult to find. Candidates focus on issues of concern to every constituency except airport communities. -
No Data, No Problem
We wrote an article called Anatomy of An Air Quality Monitoring Network. This article explains why building that system is so important to the future of Sea-Tac Airport Communities. It also describes a far more generalized problem in obtaining environmental mitigation. History In the world of engineering there is an expression: “No data, no problem.” -
2023-06-01
Four nodes in 400 words
What we have now This is one portion of the current Puget Sound Clean Air Agency air quality monitoring network map. The stars belong to PSCAA. The dots are rando PurpleAirs that belong to members of the public, they are irrelevant to this discussion. Airport Scroll down on that map to the airport. Notice something -
2023-04-03
Under The Flight Path: A community history of Sea-Tac Airport
This is our successful 2023 grant application from 4Culture.org Under The Flight Path: A community history of Sea-Tac Airport A documentary of the Airport Communities of Sea-Tac from 1959 until today: Tukwila, Normandy Park, Des Moines, Federal Way, SeaTac and Burien. This will be the first modern history of South King County and also the -
2022-10-25
Start taking air pollution seriously
Why Seattle needs to start taking wildfire smoke more seriously | The Seattle Times This article hits on something that has needed to be talked about for a very long time. The denialism people have had about air quality cannot be under-estimated. When I worked in Detroit, people were well aware of lead emissions for -
All that matters are the votes…
We never wish to embarrass current or recent electeds. But facts are facts. When it comes to aviation, no member of any Washington delegation, Federal or State, House or Senate, votes against the airline industry. They write letters. They propose various regulatory bits that have no chance at passage. But every vote that has made