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JimNtexas said:One of the passengers was a blogger who posted his account of the incident here:
http://jeremyhermanns.org/me/alaska-flight-536-rapid-de-pressurization-and-panic-at-30k-feet/
He took pictures with his cellphone.
Interestingly there were some very childish negative comments posted on this blog. The author says they are coming from IP addresses assigned to Alaska Airlines. If true, someone at Alaska is a pretty dim blub.
The pilots and flight crew did their job and got everyone on the ground as safe and as quickly as possible, as far as I can tell. And as someone has already posted, the pre-flight is completed before they pull the equipment away. So other than a change in policy, I don't know what more could be done by the flight crew.
However, I don't really get the comments on that blog that go something like, "Hey, you're still alive, suck it up!"
Nobody gets on airliner expecting fuselage sections to blow out because someone neglected to inform the operator that there was a collision between ground equipment and the aircraft.
I don't really see where the airline is liable for this, the contractor and the person that caused the damage are responsible. It could have all been prevented if the damage to the aircraft had been reported.