The plane quickly started to drop in altitude. And then it seemed the plane began banking sharply to the right once, continued in a straight path and then banked a tight right once again. “Are we going down?” Nicholas Hoch, 33, wondered. He said fear set in and he started texting his girlfriend, who he was flying to visit, and other loved ones. Read more about his and others’ experience on the Alaska Airlines flight that lost the door plug while in the air at the link in our bio. #alaskairlines #alaskaair #alaska #theoregonian