“Flashlight in the light, I saw that something was shining white under the trees”, describes the physics teacher Bob Sauer news agency Reuters.
“That's when my heart raced because I thought, 'Oh my God, this is what we've been looking for all weekend and it looks like it's in my backyard.'”
Sauer, who lives in Portland, Oregon, had just found a passenger plane door panel that had come off at an altitude of nearly 5,000 meters.
In a video, Sauer talks about the surprising discovery he made on Sunday.
Investigators from the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) presented an airplane door panel found in a yard in Portland on Monday.
The plane a door panel came off on an Alaska Airlines flight in Oregon on Friday. The plane had to make an emergency landing due to a pressurization problem, but the passengers on board were not injured.
Authorities have ordered all Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes to be inspected in the United States.
The video shows what it looked like on the plane after the door panel was removed:
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