Alaska Airlines windshield cracks upon landing in latest drama involving Boeing jets

The Blaze ^ | March 19, 2024 | Collin Jones

[butlerweave]

Boeing 737-800s have a total of five layers of windscreens, with an outer pane, three inner layers, and then an inner pane.

That’s a lot of pane

[Bob434]

Sheesh, with that many, one wonders how it cracked?

[Red Badger]

Pumped a lotta ‘pane down in New Orleans.......................

[BikerJoe]

OK, this is rapidly turning into "pile on Boeing". This is a not uncommon incident. How old was the plane?

Let's see the squawks filed daily on every aircraft in the U.S. ...

[z3n]

Just call safelite, so that they can send out a ‘technician’ who will inspect the windshield for over an hour and tell the airline that they found a microscopic pit which means it wasn’t a defect and they don’t have to cover the warranty on their cheap glass.

...

OH!

Sorry, I was talking about something else.
I got a little out of control there.
What was the topic?

[volare737]

That is precisely why there are five layers.

[Organic Panic]

Windows are a consumable item on aircraft. They can be replaced because they crack, get pitted up, and other damage.

And the vendor who used a “hotel key card and soap” to test compliance. What does that have to do with anything about a window crack?

[NorthMountain]

It’s Shark Week, only with airplanes.

[NorthMountain]

Do I get the impression that Safelite might possibly have given you the shaft at some point in the not too distant past?

[V_TWIN]

I’m beginning to suspect someone has preventive maintenance inspection program issues.

[Regulator]

“OK, this is rapidly turning into “pile on Boeing” “

That’s all it is. Jet aircraft windows are really complex because of the high pressures they take at high subsonic speeds. Cracks are a problem but they happen all the time to older airplanes in routine use.

All that’s going on here is news organizations are taking ordinary maintenance incidents and conflating them with Boeing QC, which is ridiculous. A 737-800 has been out of the factory for years.

[canuck_conservative]

A LOT of these incidents seem to be happening in the Pacific NW, especially Portland

The incident with the door plug was out of Portland, and the same with the Hawaii flight that lost a window

Maybe the possibility of deliberate sabotage should now be considered ... Russia and China both have motive and means to hurt Boeing/the US, and Portland is sorta close to Asia ...

“just saying”

[V_TWIN]

“hotel key card and soap” to test compliance”

Unauthorized makeshift tools are a HUGE no-no in aviation maintenance.

You wouldn’t was a surgeon using a pocket knife on you because a scalpel wasn’t available would you?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Not only were there were no injuries among the 159 passengers and six crew members, none of them even knew about it. Unlike engines in flames and missing door plugs.

[z3n]

Do I get the impression that Safelite might possibly have given you the shaft at some point in the not too distant past?

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hmmmmm...




Not to hijack a thread, but yes.
Warning to anyone who ever needs to have a windshield replaced. Safelite claims (or at least they used to) to have a warranty on their glass, but if you get a crack, they will do everything they possible can not to honor it, at least in my experience.
After a loooong inspection, I was handed a powerful magnifying glass and told to observe a pit inline with the crack. I could not see it, even with the magnification. But he insisted it was there. Buh Bye! Too bad... so sad. No warranty.
Do yourself a favor, and find someone who uses quality glass.

[Dead Corpse]

Did someone in the media gain access to the FAA incident report system? Ton’s of these stories lately.

Planes, like cars, have things break.

And?

[TangoLimaSierra]

Zactly.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Its like the old Soviet Aeroflot days! Don’t people take care of planes anymore? Does this include the USAF too? We better not get into a shooting war with a real nation with an air force or we are in deep Do do, as a former president once said.

[NorthMountain]

The analogy has merit ... The difference between USA now and USSR then is the aircraft themselves.

The Big Media are currently waving in our face apparent maintenance failures on fundamentally high-quality aircraft. I suspect them of being less than honest, though.

Back in the USSR, it was crap maintenance on crap aircraft and everybody knew it. Aeroflot very quickly ditched all its Soviet Ilyushins and Tupolevs for Boeing and Airbus products after the USSR collapsed.