Posted on 06/26/2024 11:09:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
AVIATION PING!......................
DEI? Who knows but the 737 max has had a lot of problems and close calls.
“Despite the frightening ordeal, there were no major injuries reported.”
I guess they’re not counting soiled underwear. 😏
COMPUTER ISSUES???
HACKED????
Stopped up pitot tubes?..............
that's about 30 feet per second. Besides the initial deceleration, passengers wouldn't really feel a thing.
On the other hand, they certainly WOULD notice the depressurization, O2 masks dropping, and the screaming of other passengers.
Anybody check the bolts on the rear door plug?
Flight level 40 ASL. 40,000
Where one has to be to keep the cabin occupants screaming...
12,000... they will be quite good passengers at 18,000 except for the smokers who O2 debt conditions them for 15,000.
40 - 12 = 37,000 foot dive that happens in about 10 minutes as the O2 generators are not 100% after 15 mins, normal landing that is 22-27 minutes. As long as the pilots did not get the overspeed clackers beating a tempo, door seals be door seals.
Maybe it’s a cyber attack dry run by the Chinese...
James McNerney and all his GE cronies at the time should be in prison already.
These planes can be hacked, right? That’s a really stupid choice.
The news report is crap.
True that losing pressurization at 30 to 40,000 is a red alert emergency, pilots train for it. They learn to descend immediately in a manner that does not endanger structural integrity.
This was a controlled decent.
The fact that the passengers became hysterical does not make it any more than it was.
I am not qualified to fly a jet of any kind, but I did pilot my own plane for 40 years and had some very skilled friends who were.
Hey, what’s up with all these red “REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT” flags?
Ford is doing a pretty good job of it in their F150 as well. It's like watching great engineering commit suicide.
>This was a controlled decent.<
Absolutely! Less than 1800 feet per minute. That is a normal idle thrust descent without spoilers or use of Vmo speed. It’s what you experience on every descent to landing from higher altitudes.
This was a mere pressurization control problem. There was no rapid depressurization. The plane did not nosedive. And I can assure everyone that it was not “ making multiple erratic loops before stabilizing.”
I owned my own airplanes too. I also have over 26,000 flight hours mostly in airline jets. I hate reading J School graduates write about aviation matters. I start from the position of believing very little of what they write is accurate.
EC
” plummeting 26,900 feet before making multiple erratic loops before stabilizing.”
Loops?
And a few barrel rolls
Sabotage?
Ice forming on the pitot tubes, possibly.
Or chewing gum...................
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