Posted on 06/26/2024 11:09:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
So which was it?
1. Plunges
2. Plummeting
3. Descending sharply
4. Rapidly
Korea airlines has a DEI hiring program?
Who knew?
It was a reporter with a thesaurus.
The suicide of Boeing - (or was it more like murder)
https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/
Hot kimchi in the hanboks !
Good thing the airplane was not flying at a lower altitude....
I’m sure the design and production teams are far more diverse and inclusive, so this is the price of progress.
The P51 Mustang went from a yellow sketch pad to full scale production in less than six months. They estimate it would take more than nine years to do that today. One might question the value of our technological advancements such as computers, design software, materials selection, and group-think?
Boeing Boeing Boeing
For a few years, in the late 60s and early 70s, I had to fly to Oak Ridge via the Knoxville airport twice a month...
At least 3 times, that I can specifically remember, banking into that area we experienced down-drafts that lasted for a few hundred feet...
That was quite a thrill...
I cannot imagine what a drop of several thousand feet must have felt like...
At least the passengers had time to bend over and kiss their butt goodbye...
26,900 foot descent in 15 minutes is 1800 ft/min. They needed to get to 10,000 feet so they were likely leveled at about 37,000 feet.
That’s a very normal idle descent, not a max descent, and probably without using any wing spoilers.
Given the shallow descent (probably for passenger comfort) it doesn’t sound like it was more than a precautionary call from strictly a systems point of view to declare an emergency but declaring an emergency was justified. They didn’t want to risk delaying the descent and they were returning to their departure point for repairs, meaning lots of coordination with ATC, so they benefited from getting traffic priority.
The fact that the passenger O2 masks deployed means they likely had a cabin above 14,000 feet at some point unless they were electrically deployed from the cockpit (seems unlikely). That alone would justify declaring an emergency. The O2 for the passengers is chemically produced and lasts for about 15 minutes. It’s not necessarily enough O2 to keep passengers conscious but should be enough to keep passengers alive until a lower altitude is reached.
As for whether this was a “Boeing problem” that’s also unlikely. But that never stops the scientifically ignorant media from sensationalizing the narrative to reinforce the drumbeat of negative publicity surrounding Boeing.
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