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????
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.
Ford is doing a pretty good job of it in their F150 as well. It's like watching great engineering commit suicide.
” plummeting 26,900 feet before making multiple erratic loops before stabilizing.”
Loops?
Sabotage?
So which was it?
1. Plunges
2. Plummeting
3. Descending sharply
4. Rapidly
Korea airlines has a DEI hiring program?
Who knew?
Good thing the airplane was not flying at a lower altitude....
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.