FAA warns parents to stop holding babies in their laps on planes amid fears infants could be SUCKED OUT of aircraft if more doors blow off commercial airlines

Experts are warning parents not to put infants on their laps when flying after a panel blew off on an Alaska Airlines plane at 16,000 feet. When asked how the FAA responds to parents who might argue that they can’t afford to buy their infant a seat, the FAA only said: ‘For every rule, the FAA is legally required to conduct a cost-benefit analysis to show that the benefits of the proposal exceed the costs.’ Alaska Airlines flight 1282 was forced to land when a window panel blew out on the Boeing 737 Max 9 plane shortly after take-off. Toys, phones and clothes were sucked into the night after the plug door 'departed the aircraft' causing instant decompression with 171 passengers aboard Flight 1282 on Friday evening ‘If there had been a passenger holding a kid close to where that panel blew off, the explosive force was such that a kid being held would have been torn from the hands of their parents, and they would have been sucked out the plane,’ Kwasi Adjekum, an assistant professor at the University of North Dakota’s Department of Aviation told The Washington Post. The FAA said, ' The FAA’s priority is keeping the public safe.’ The agency issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive to Boeing for its 737 Max 9 airplanes, grounding them until all ‘applicable corrective actions have been performed.’ Anthony Brickhouse, an aerospace safety professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, questioned why children are required to be in a car seat if they’re under a certain weight in a vehicle, but parents are permitted to hold them on their lap on a commercial flight. ‘That, to me, is just a gap in the system,’ Brickhouse told The Post, adding: ‘And unfortunately, in safety, a lot of times, changes aren’t made until there’s a tragedy.’ The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration said if an infant were sitting on their parent’s lap near the window, they would have been swept out of the plane Yet, tragedies have frequently occurred as early as the 1970s, prompting the NTSB and FAA to require airlines to allow aviation-approved child seats on board in 1990.