‘Thank you, Bob’: Meet the teacher who found the missing Alaska Airlines plane piece



Bob Sauer, who the NTSB safety board chair personally thanked in a news conference, discovered the missing door plug from an Alaska Airlines plane under heavy tree cover in his backyard in Portland, Oregon. He shares how he made the discovery and how the NTSB responded when he called.
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31 comments

  1. Great to see a great, everyday hero ( teacher) interviewed, telling about finding the part of the missing plane. Thank you!

  2. 💜💜🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸💜💜

  3. Big whoop. 🤷‍♂️🥴

  4. Bob didn't find the plug – it found him. It being in his backyard isn't "finding" it.

  5. Eh it fell in his garden… he never went on an expedition up the Limpopo River to find it. What a total media over-reaction.

  6. His stunning bravery, deep humility and unprecedented courage is simply iconic and very inspirational! He reached out, authentically, as he stood in his power and walked in his truth! This is an example of how each of us may defend and uphold our sacred, sanctified and sacrosanct democracy, by embracing our authenticity!

  7. Why do / did they need it so much

  8. Bob , is sooooooooo clear & Articulate explaining his experience with his discovery ✈️🛫, he MUST be a REALLY Excellent Teacher !

    Give that Dude at least a Finder's Fee !

  9. What does he think about illegal aliens living in our schools?

  10. There are 73,832 buildings and campsites, airplanes on 18,634, acreages ● the USA 🇺🇸 military shopped so much Cocain , the Navy officer's all recieved tanks, on hydraulic platforms amphibious submarines○ GPS SO THEY MISS NOT ONE PUB📻🧸🔔

  11. I was hoping this story would have more detail.

  12. Ah, the struggle to make a three minute blab, about finding a door on the ground, sound interesting. Good job, Bob. You did OK.

  13. Great that it was found. Wonder if some kind of award was given. Hope the people got their cell phones back too.

  14. New govermernt of Donald Tusk act like they are terrorist, like junta. And police help them, they tresspassing illictly to our president Andrew Duda palace and kidnapp MaciejWąsik and Mariusz Kamiński to prison, although they are both pardon by our president. The most of private television in Poland, internet portals and newspapers is rules by a postcomunist people, which parents or grandparents were beneficiary of totalitarism system of PRL. And now with Tusk and help of UE those pepole are comming back to power.

  15. Our past prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki said: "For the first time in 35 years, since the fall of communism and the great victory of Poles over totalitarianism, we have political prisoners in Poland… Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik are victims of the political revenge of Donald Tusk's new government. I appeal to the democratic community of the West not to look passively at what is happening in Poland today".

  16. World help us! don't listen TVN (polish private station) or Gazeta Wyborcza (polish newspaper), they are representation of postcommunist society, they want to destroy independent Poland. It is horrible, what is happened nowadays in our country.

  17. I have been wondering where it was. Lucky … wow

  18. We didn’t have white onions because of the war..

  19. Imagine if he hid it forever and no one understood the reason why and next time it blew off people died.

  20. Anyone find that man's shirt?

  21. When seniors cant sleep….lol

  22. Bob is a teacher by day and male stripper at night

  23. Blah-blah-blah and more Blah-blah-blah….. And folk's actually believe this crock…. Next they'll say they found the missing cell phone's in pristine working order…..😅

  24. Bob, you should be in pictures

  25. Funny as the government was very happy that you reported the missing door, but not happy at all, when Hunter's all forgotten about laptop was reported. Gee, I wonder why?

  26. Is this made in China or America?

  27. I wonder what this would have brought on EBAY?