Alaska Airlines passenger involved in lawsuit says: 'I literally thought I was going to die'

Huy Tran can't stop thinking about the day a piece of the plane he was on ripped off mid-flight, leaving a door-shaped hole just a few feet from where he sat.This image released by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board shows where a panel blew off Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 mid-flight on Jan. 5. Huy Tran, who is suing Boeing and Alaska Airlines, was sitting just a few feet away.

Tran remembers the moment vividly. He says he had laid his head back and closed his eyes, when he heard a "swooshing noise." The sound of the wind pressure was overwhelming, he said. He and the other passengers could only communicate by facial expressions. The biting-cold wind made him wonder if he would freeze to death.

"Our clients — and likely every passenger on that flight — suffered unnecessary trauma due to the failure of Boeing, Spirit AeroSystems, and Alaska Airlines to ensure that the aircraft was in a safe and airworthy condition," lawyer Timothy A. Loranger, who filed the suit,Plaintiffs in a new lawsuit related to the Alaskan Airlines blow-out are Huy Tran, left, Cuong Tran, right, Ket Tran and Tram Vo, centre, and their three children.

Boeing, under increased scrutiny since the incident, has acknowledged in a letter to U.S. Congress that it cannot find records for work done on the door panel of the Alaska Airlines plane.

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