That has been the theory of the 4 working engineers, we have in our families and one retired engineer.
Knowing that could be the cause still makes people like me scared to fly.
Regarding the MAINTENANCE squawks on the Alaska Airlines flight: We know that the aircraft had multiple pressurization warnings prior to the blowout. Why didn’t maintenance ground the aircraft and find the true source of the issue? Why did the pilot of the flight not preserve the voice recorder audio for that flight? Did she ignore a warning and decide to fly the aircraft anyway? Things are too fishy in this DEI world right now. We know 100% that the Alaskan Air flight was not allowed to fly to Hawaii but it was allowed to fly inland… how many other flights are traversing our skies today with issues? I am so glad I have 2,000,000 frequent flier miles in my accounts with American and Delta right now. What a time to fly. There should be plenty of room on the flights because no one will want to fly by the end of the year.