Alaska Airlines Flight 442

Alaska Airlines Flight 442 is an airplane that exploded over the Pacific Ocean on its way from Alaska to Los Angeles.

Passengers and crew

 * Claire, an Alaska Airlines stewardess
 * Ali Abdul, a prospective terrorist working for Abdul Rahman Yasin. He sat in seat 29D.

Investigation
The explosion of Flight 442 was investigated by a team composed of members from both the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). One of the members on that team was Diana Christie.

Official FAA reports decided that it was a malfunction in the fuel tank, some kind of faulty wiring that blew up the fuel tank and sent a fire line up into the cabin. The oxygen tanks then blew up, causing the explosion that burst the plane into flames over the Pacific Ocean.

However, Christie didn't agree with this report. She felt the fuel tank explosion was secondary and that the first blast was in the cabin, the opposite of what the FAA determined. Neither the FAA or NTSB supported her so she investigated with the help of the Counter Terrorist Unit.