Posted on 01/08/2024 8:40:34 AM PST by george76
Check engine lights are designed to bring vehicles back to a dealership. Period.
Fury ~ What an ignorant, embarrassing statement.
BB* I might have agreed with you.
Now? It's the way to bet.
*Before Barack or Before Biden...
This is just the latest example of the media intentionally trying to make more out of something that is basically meaningless. For reasons still not known for sure... an emergency exit that was not secured came loose when the plane reached an altitude where the difference in air pressure was able to open it.
It was likely a problem caused by incompetent maintenance personnel, but a design flaw or sabotage could also have been responsible.
Personally, I believe these types of safety exits have a built-in limitation that can be dangerous to people on the ground... the lack of hinges. Breathless reporting would be greatly reduced if the story was that a door was left unlocked and came open.
I quit flying after TSA came on the scene ... too much BS & all sorts of freedom/privacy issues. I hated flying anyway (had to for work) so giving it up wasn’t an issue. If I can’t drive it, I don’t go.
BTW, my brother was taking a flight to a satellite office, about a 6 hour flight/airport time. He got tired of flights being cancelled, & other issues so he decided to drive it. As it turns out, he could drive it in the same amount of time it took him from getting to the airport to landing ... AND he could control stopping for a break, snacks, etc. He drives to that office now.
I think “concealed exit hatch opening” might better describe the subject. The appearance that it was just a window did not reveal the much larger potential opening in the fuselage which was an option Alaska Airlines had not taken when purchasing the aircraft.
It would seem to me that three pressurization warnings would have been more than sufficient to address the potential problem by pressurizing the aircraft on the ground and determining if there was a leak in the system.
Folks sitting anywhere near the opening are extremely lucky only a shirt and cell phones departed the aircraft.
I hope you are kidding.
Are you?
Right. Although when the check engine light goes on in my car, I’m not 30,000 feet in the air.
I don’t think they were kidding. O have a sense of humor and sense we are not in that phase yet. (Tragedy + time = comedy gold.)
Last entry in Anne Frank’s diary; “Today is my birthday and Dad got me a drum kit”.
That tv series ‘Dead Like Me’.
Actually the 1989 blowout was due to a design flaw, the locking mechanism could get damaged, and the indicators that it was properly locked would show it was properly secured even when due to the damage it was not properly locked, if memory serves.
I am also pretty sure that this design flaw, that allowed the locks to become damaged and not lock properly but still indicate they were was raised beforehand and dismissed.
My guess is it wasn't a design flaw but rather an installation flaw of some sort. It is too soon to tell if it was at the factory or after the plane was delivered to Alaskan Air.
“Homendy tried to say there’s no known connection between the pressurization light and the near-devastating disaster,..”
Yeah, but it meant something else was wrong,
I quit flying after TSA came on the scene
That make two of us.
I just flew on one of these planes in November
Installation flaw: Someone didn't bolt the hatch in properly when building the aircraft (which was rolled out two months ago).
Design flaw: The hatch, since it's not a door, should be designed so that it can never fit out the opening and the more the pressure builds, the tighter it gets.
In this case, it sounds like it was both a design flaw and an installation flaw.
It wasn’t a door. It was a station on the fuselage where a door could optionally be installed.
You’re a straight-up asshole.
A bunch of people at Boeing and Alaska really screwed up big time on this one.
This is not the Boeing Culture I remember. Boeing seems to have some internal problems and they need to their house in order.
On the other hand, they have been using this plug for at least 30 years with no problems until now so this far from a design defect
The FAA appears to be another bought and paid for appendage of Boeing and the airlines.
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