News about Maria Cantwell

Since the near-tragedy 16,000 feet over Portland, California resident Cuong Tran and six other passengers have filed a lawsuit against Boeing and the airline. Tran was seated in row 27, behind the row where the hole had been found, and told the BBC that his seatbelt had prevented him from being ejected from the plane by the uncontrolled decompression, which took about ten or twenty seconds. We had crossed 10,000 feet,' the captain said.' Then the hole burst out on us, and I can remember my body being lifted. 'Then my whole lower body was sucked down by the howling wind,' he said. Although the seatbelt carried his body inside the plane, his shoes and socks were not affected by the same fate. 'That feeling of no control is frightening.' The suction was so robust, I was enduring for dear life,' he explained. Both my shoes fell out, and my shoe was on really tight...My phone was in my hand, too.'

Senators were sent a classified intelligence briefing on TikTok, afraid that the app could be used against the United States in the forthcoming elections, like the app to a "gun pointed at American heads." The meeting with senators was held to share information about TikTok's data sharing activities and highlight dangers the app faces. The classified hearing came a week after the House passed legislation forcing ByteDance, headquartered in TikTok, to withhold for six months or face a ban, and the Senate considers the next steps on how to proceed.

More passengers were left traumatized after a blowout that left a door-sized hole in the main cabin of Alaska Airlines in January, including one who said that his seat belt saved his life after his shoes and socks were sucked out. Seven passengers had filed a lawsuit against Boeing, Alaska Airlines, Spirit AeroSystems, and ten other unidentified individuals. It was filed in King County, Washington State, if King County. The flight was en route from Seattle to Ontario, California. In 2024, a series of high-profile safety failures for Boeing seemed to have started a string of high-profile safety failures. A Boeing plane lost a wheel after taking off and smashing cars below.

Emma Vu, one of the passengers, was asleep when the Boeing 737 Max 9 suddenly stopped after a plug covering an unoccupied exit door blew off. Several panic messages from her parents followed: 'The masks are down,' she wrote.' Right now, I am so afraid. Please pray for me. I don't want to die.' Ms Vu's later posted a video of the TikTok riot, which featured her wearing an oxygen mask as terror takes hold of her and other passengers nearby. You just assume it's never going to happen to you,' she told CNN,'very scary' and "very surreal." Sreysoar Un, a mother who traveled with her 12-year-old son, was worried that the plane was going to crash.

Jaelynn Chaney, a 25-year-old plus-size influencer, appeared on TikTok video that she had been meeting with a prominent US Senator's staff. She is requesting that overweight flyers be given as many free seats as they can fly safely. Chaney said she wasn't know who would fund the costs of the proposals, but that the changes were worth it. This week, Southwest Airlines released a new policy allowing obese passengers to get free extra seats

In the aftermath of the train derailment, the terrified fire chief of East Palestine, Ohio, said he felt "defeated, ineffective, and so angry." In messages following the February 3 explosion that culminated in a community-wide environmental and health crisis, Keith Drabick expressed his insensitivity privately. Text message exchanges show Drabick becoming increasingly aggravated, at one point expressing: 'Why does this have to be so hard?' He admitted to having to wait a few minutes because of the government's volatile responses, especially a FEMA leaflet campaign, which he dubbed a "ginormous s*** display."

On Tuesday, Southwest Airlines took another hit after technical difficulties caused the company to temporarily grounded all flights around the country, resulting in more than 2,400 delayed flights. The hold on departures backed up traffic at Denver to New York City, just four months after Southwest experienced a much-needed meltdown as a result of the holiday travel season. The carrier attributed the disruption on Tuesday's failure to 'data connection issues resulting from a firewall failure,' adding: 'Early this morning, a vendor-supplied firewall went offline, and connection to some operational information was unexpectedly lost.'

A Senate committee passed a bill on Wednesday entitled 'Information Consumers of Smart Devices Act', which will compel fridge manufacturers to alert consumers of cameras. The bill, which has already been approved by the House, will now go to a full Senate vote and then become statute. "American consumers should be aware" when their appliances and everyday tech gadgets can be shot through microphones and cameras, not to mention the ability to broadcast via Wi-Fi,' Ted Cruz, a Democrat senator from California's Congresswoman Maria Cantwell, said. Customers tend to keep the milk cold, not record their most personal and private family discussions,' Cantwell said.

On January 26, two Alaska Airlines planes spat their tails on the tarmac of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as they took off due to a software bug that left the pilots feeling their planes were 20,000 pounds lighter. The planes were separated by six minutes and in no way made physical contact with each other. According to the Seattle Times, the situation was sufficiently serious for Alaska Airlines to begin a national freeze of all aircraft in the immediate aftermath. Alaska Airlines spokesperson John McCain confirmed to DailyMail.com that the incident occurred and that the grounding lasted about 20 minutes. 'The tail touches were triggered by a vendor software upgrade that mistakenly added code, resulting in inaccurate take-off performance weight data for a small subset of our flights,' the spokesperson said.'

On Thursday, the airlines said operations would return to normal as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambles to determine the source of a computer outage that grounded flights nationally and prevent it from happening again. However, 511 flights in the United States were delayed and 63 were canceled as a result of the outage, according to FlightAware, as the knock-on effect of the outage continued. In the first national grounding of domestic traffic in about two decades, more than 11,300 flights were delayed or cancelled on Wednesday. On Thursday, major airlines, including Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, and Southwest Airlines, reported that normal operations would be resumed. The shares of American Airlines fell by around 11% pre-market.

Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., chair of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, confirmed that her committee would be investigating the reasons for the flight delays and cancellations. 'The problems at Southwest Airlines over the past several days go beyond weather.' The commission will investigate the causes of these disruptions and its impact on customers,' she said in a tweet. 'Many airlines fail to properly inform customers during flight cancellations.' Consumers are entitled to robust safeguards, including a new consumer refund policy.' Cantwell and Sens. will collaborate in November. Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal filed a letter with the Department of Transportation (DOT), requesting that consumers be fairly compensated when flights are cancelled or severely delayed due to an airline problem, including secondary food and lodging prices.