Posted on 01/08/2024 6:28:20 AM PST by V_TWIN
Two phones and a "door plug": these are some of the items found in Oregon days after Alaska Airlines flight 1282 lost part of its fuselage at 16,000 feet.
The Boeing 737 Max 9 made a safe emergency landing on 5 January after an outer section of the plane blew off minutes into the flight from Portland.
None of the 177 people on board were seriously injured in the incident.
But the search continues for other lost belongings and parts, thought to include a cushion from the seat immediately next to the blown-out section of fuselage - which was thankfully unoccupied.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Amen
If it’s a Boeing 737 Max - I ain’t going.
At minimum, each passenger should get a lifetime supply of underwear...................
If it’s a Boeing, I ain’t going................
What if this occurred at cruising altitude?
That would have really sucked.
Heard that!
The article also links to an article mentioning that pilots had seen pressurization warnings days before
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67909417
Alaska Airlines placed restrictions on the Boeing plane involved in a dramatic mid-air blowout after pressurisation warnings in the days before Friday’s incident, investigators say.
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“An additional maintenance look” was requested but “not completed” before the incident, Ms Homendy said.
The airline’s maintenance chief needs to be fired. And the CEO needs to also step down. Looks like they were very lax on responding to warnings.
Boeing: Offshored and SCRUMMY! What's not to like?
Really limits your choices. Southwest and many other companies have operated 737’s with an admirable safety record for millions of air hours.
Boeing: our planes really suck
They were already at 16k feet. All that would have happened would be that there would have been a wider debris field somewhere else. It ain't like the movies. Small debris and loose items would fly around and possibly be sucked out, but pressures would equalize immediately. The explosive decompression would result in temporary fog and condensation and noise, and there would be wind from the opening. The biggest issue would be the extreme cold temps. But it won't suck Auric Goldfinger out the window portal.
And that is why you always want to WEAR YOUR SEATBELT. That and unexpected turbulence.
I just watched the movie “Society of the Snow” over the weekend. This is the story of the Uruguay rugby team that crash landed in the Andes on their way to Chile in 1972. I was familiar with the story but this brought back all the history.
I would recommend it. FYI, it is in Spanish with subtitles.
I believe that this plane was relatively new. I thought I heard/read it went into service last October.
...playing his golden harp
In the early 2000s a jet that my facility had done maintenance on took off from NAS Jax and flew over the Ortega area north of the base.
A few hours later an Ortega homeowner called the NAS to report an aircraft part had fallen into his backyard.
Apparently a bomb rack unit hadn’t been attached properly and fell off.
As it turned out, the homeowner was a retired fairly high ranking Navy officer and had been stationed at NAS Jax.
The squadron the plane was attached to sent a couple of 3rd class in a van to go retrieve the BRU and the local news media never got wind of it.......BTW, that’s not the only time a part fell off an aircraft that had had maintenance done to it at the Fleet Readiness Center. 😏
I see what you did there.
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