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To: SaveFerris

Shortly after takeoff, debris detached from the plane’s engine and struck the cabin window, shattering it….
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Hmmmm… shades of a few incidents for which the root cause was fatigue crack of a fan blade…?
- April 17, 2018, Southwest Airlines Flight 1380, a Boeing 737-700 flying from LaGuardia Airport, New York, en route to Dallas….
- August 27, 2016, Southwest Airlines Flight 3472, a Boeing 737-700 from New Orleans to Orlando International Airport in Orlando….


33 posted on 07/10/2026 8:17:36 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: hecticskeptic; null and void

I began to actually like the 737
when they got to the -300 up to -800 series

Though I remember USAir Flight 427 was a Boeing 737-300.

I had just landed in Connecticut that same day

Though this wasn’t a MAX I still don’t want to fly in a MAX


43 posted on 07/10/2026 8:34:49 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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