Posted on 03/20/2024 7:49:58 AM PDT by Twotone
If it’s Boeing, I’m not going.
Airplanes have always been very complex machines. Being machines, they wear out and break...constantly. Like many, I think every incident is being made public and making aircraft ops look more dangerous than it is.
“Its like the old Soviet Aeroflot days!”
I actually flew Aeroflot between Moscow and Saint Petersburg back in the day (’73) and that was one scary flight with the jet rattling so much I thought it was coming apart. But at least they served me alcoholic beverages even though I was only 15 at the time. I needed the booze to calm my nerves.
Agreed, this stuff in pretty common, it’s not just a Boeing thing.
I had two windshields replaced by them a few weeks apart.
Both rock damage even if the second one was something else.
The second one I was on open interstate and not much traffic. Then I heard a loud crack and saw tiny shards of glass on the dash and my clothes.
Whatever hit went in at almost level with the dash. Just above the windshield wiper arm, drivers side.
Looking down when I got somewhere to stop, the hole was about quarter sized and went all the way through. Nothing wrong with the dash panel.
Funny thing was I didn’t find the rock or whatever it was lodged anywhere. I also didn’t see the object coming.
I’ve never seen a windshield get hammered like that from rocks.
One would almost think it was a bullet because of the damage plus there being a fairly round hole. There was light traffic there was, mostly some tractor trailers way ahead and a few cars. I didn’t see anything unusual.
It would have to come from straight ahead.
Safelite replaced no problem. The guy said that damage was new one to him.
With the windshield out, no signs of anything.
Make of it what you will.
That was the one time I should have had a Go Pro mounted.
I think they sold them off to North Korea - you can still see TU-154’s in Air Koryo livery at Beijing airport to this day.
It’d have been a whole lot of pain if they’d broken while up in the air.
So why isn’t all these problems happening to other planes?
They are not news to the MSM now. The other aircraft manufacturers have just as many problems, if not more. If you don’t think so, just watch the TV series “Air Disasters”.
AVIATION PING!........................
I'm thinking mal-functioning anti-ice system.
Oh yup, good point- gets might chilly in the air .which stresses things like glass, so,that could be it.
Most likely the window heat controller failed. This is not an unusual problem. The window is made of several layers, the outer most layer being glass, for scratch and abrasion resistance. The other layers are plastic, with thin wires between layers for thermal anti ice protection. Window heat controllers can fail to heat or overheat. Fail to heat at altitude causes an immediate temperature difference between 50 degrees below zero outside air and 70 degrees inside air. this sudden loss of heat can cause the window to shatter. A sudden overheat condition can cause the same damage.
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