PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Sunday marks one year since an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 had its door plug blown out in midair on Jan. 5, 2024 on its trip from PDX to Ontario, California.
That same door plug plunged thousands of feet and landed in a tree in a Portland science teacher’s backyard in the West Haven neighborhood.
Bob Sauer, the now-retired teacher, recounted the following days when people were searching all over Portland to find the missing piece of evidence. And had it not been for a call from a friend, he may not have found it at all…