Posted on 03/11/2024 4:40:06 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Fifty people were injured onboard a Boeing plane Monday, with some smashing into the ceiling when it “suddenly nosedived” mid-flight.
This marks the latest disaster for Boeing after a wheel fell off one of their planes mid-flight and another skidded off the runway just last week.
As Newsweek noted, a spokesperson for the Chilean airline LATAM told news outlets that a “technical problem” on the flight had harmed passengers and crew members. The airline also claimed the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner experienced a “strong movement” but refused to elaborate.
The airplane was traveling from Sydney, Australia, to Auckland, New Zealand, when the turbulence hit.
Reuters reported a continent of emergency vehicles from Hato Hone St John was called to Auckland Airport at 3:58 local time after the passengers and crew were injured. St. John sent 14 units to the scene, including seven ambulances, two operation managers, two Major Incident Support Team vehicles, one command unit, and two rapid response vehicles.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
It started out as a play, was made into a movie, and in it, there are a number of recreations of well known catastrophic aviation mishaps, all realistically and accurately based on the flight deck recordings and investigations.
The link above portrays a mishap (Japan Air Lines Flight 123, a 747 that suffered a structural failure with 524 crew and passengers aboard, all killed) which is widely considered by many to be the object example of too much input for human beings to process. They were dealing with hysterical passengers, flight attendants, multiple air traffic controllers speaking multiple languages (both Japanese and English) at the same time, all while trying unsuccessfully to keep the plane in the air before is impacted the side of a mountain.
Gripping stuff.
“But when that buffer overflows, it takes training, discipline, and intelligence to manage it.”
I’ve been in fossil plant control rooms when alarms are cascading, the entire annunciator panel is lit up and klaxons blaring. Talk about mental over-taxation, overload and high stress. It’s very hard in that cacophony to figure out what happened and how to get things back under control. You don’t have a lot of time to react. The good thing about fossil plants is you can always kill the fire and take the unit off line (but that’s the last resort and you don’t want to be the guy who erroneously makes that call), unlike aircraft or nuclear plants.
In all those fields, things are humming along smoothly for weeks, months or years, so you get complacent. Then BOOM! Everything goes awry.
I remember reading a while back that long-haul flights are so long that pilots get very little time actually flying, taking off and landing the plane. Then a sudden, unexpected event like a big CAT turbulence or a door plug blowing out gets your attention.
It even had an occasional cartoon in it, a crusty old leather-helmeted guy named "Grandpa Pettibone" (I thought it was "Grandpa Dave" but...looking it up to be sure, it was "Pettibone")
But as a 19 year old sailor, I found the mishap reports fascinating and gripping reading. And the common thread through almost all of them (but not ALL of them) was human failure. I immediately recognized any of those guys they described installing a bolt the wrong way could be me.
Justice Clarence Thomas is a great man.
That is absolutely true, and unfortunately, human nature.
We are ALL susceptible to it. Besides being a jet mechanic in my Navy days, I became a Nuclear Medicine Tech, and then an IT person.
in ALL of those fields, to do well and not hurt myself or others, I was always compelled to study mistakes and how they are made, because I am as susceptible as the next person, even more so in some ways, so I have to constantly fight complacency. It is often hard to do.
If the pilots are diversity hires, they are employed by the AIRLINE, not by BOEING.
But you already knew that.
“Pilots? You do realize of course that Boeing makes the planes. They don’t fly the planes.”
Boeing doesn’t make air turbulence and probably not the fault of the pilots either. We will have to wait and see but it doesn’t appear to be Boeing’s fault. Just media piling on.
🚨 JUST IN: UNITED AIRLINES BOEING 777 TAKES OFF WITH MAJOR FUEL LEAK
This is happening WAY too frequently with both Boeing and United
The 777 was taking off from Sydney, Australia in route to San Francisco when it was captured on video dumping fuel all over the runway, which… pic.twitter.com/CZDXheT5IE— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 12, 2024
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Hires are making their presence known in airline maintaince.
If I’m in my seat, I’m wearing my seatbelt.
Aviation Ping!.................
I am a long time, pilot and aviation enthusiast who lives on an airport with our airplanes and hang gliders. Most of our neighbors are professional pilots or have some connection to Boeing.
For whatever reason our mainstream media always favors narratives which ultimately results in American industry shipping jobs overseas. And of course, a large percentage of the population has an innate fear of flying. So, despite airline travel being by far the statistically safest means form of transportation... air disaster stories are always a sure-fire way for media companies to attract viewers or readers.
Years ago, after visiting me at the fire station, my wife came home late after a plane had crashed near our airport. It was after hours, so the gate was closed. A gaggle of news crews were waiting in front of the gate hoping to get in. My wife and our other neighbors would not allow them into the airport. They were very upset about this... and our local media darlings were having a fit. My wife was shown on the news refusing them access. Every piece we saw portrayed private aviation as a very bad thing that put the public at risk. And letting them into the airport would not have changed things at all. They have their narrative, and nothing would have changed it.
I finally found insight into the ‘technical problem’.
Watch the video. About halfway in the passenger recounts his personal exchange with the pilot immediately after the event, who admitted that “he lost control” and “gauges went blank.”
Sounds like a major failure of the autopilot in conjunction with a weather phenomenon that initiated the sudden drop preceding the nose down attitude.
Not good.
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