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An Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Oakland, California, reportedly had to turn around Sunday afternoon due to an engine problem.
Alaska Airlines Flight 1240, which was operated by a Boeing 737-700, according to flight tracking website FlightAware, departed Seattle-Tacoma International Airport at 12:24 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. It returned just over an hour later.
In a statement to several media outlets, Alaska Airlines said the reversal was due to an engine failure on the aircraft’s left wing.
“It almost felt like you were running over something with a car,” passenger Dabney Lawless told local television station KIRO. Her 13-year-old son saw smoke outside the plane and she noticed people on the plane trying to reach their loved ones.
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A Boeing 737-700 aircraft operated by Alaska Airlines parks on the tarmac at Hollywood Burbank Airport in Burbank, California, Wednesday, April 28, 2021. (Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
“My son told me very clearly that he loved me and that I was a good mother. He prepared himself for a possible breakdown, but he also knew that everything could be OK,” she said.
Neither Alaska Airlines nor Boeing responded to a request for comment from FOX Business, but several media outlets quoted a statement from the airline crediting the crew with “landing safely and without incident.”
“We worked to care for our guests and facilitate their travel to Oakland yesterday afternoon and we apologize for the inconvenience,” the statement said.
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An Alaska Airlines Inc. Boeing 737-700 aircraft at Hollywood Burbank Airport in Burbank, California, on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. (Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
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| BA | THE BOEING CO. | 173.48 | -1.48 |
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| ALCOHOL | Companies starting with ALASKA | 35.28 | -0.44 |
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will investigate the incident.
As FlightAware shows, another plane brought passengers to Oakland later that evening.
Alaska Airlines is currently attempting to merge with Hawaiian Airlines.
Elizabeth Lund, Boeing’s senior vice president of Quality, speaks to the assembled media in front of a slide detailing the January 5, 2024, explosion damage to the aircraft door on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 at Boeing’s Renton facility 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 lock failure occurred on a Boeing 737-9 MAX during one of its flights in January.
Earlier this summer, Boeing was reprimanded by the NTSB for Sharing details of the investigation Elizabeth Lund, senior vice president of quality for Boeing commercial aircraft, spoke about the matter at a press conference. She is also chair of the Enterprise Quality Operations Council.
