Posted on 01/13/2024 1:21:47 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
A Boeing 737 plane in Japan was forced to return to its point of departure on Saturday after a crack appeared in the window of the plane’s cockpit.
The All Nippon Airways (ANA) domestic flight had left the city of Sapporo en route to Toyama, before turning around for an emergency landing. No one onboard was injured, a spokesperson for the airline said.
John Strickland, an expert aviation consultant said that although the crack was in the outermost of the four-layered window, cracks like it “can be pretty dangerous if not fixed,” according to the BBC.
“The crack was not something that affected the flight’s control or pressurization,” the ANA spokesperson said.
This is the second safety issue with a Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft in as many weeks, after a door panel blew off of an Alaska Airlines flight that was departing from Portland Oregon.
On Friday, the FAA extended the grounding of Boeing 737 Max 9 planes indefinitely.
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Must see: Movie (UK-1951) Starring Jimmy Stewart: “No Highway in the Sky”. Deals with Metal Fatigue in Airliners. A great and prophetic film. Deals with this subject.
How many people are flying to Toyama, like 3?
When meritocracy is not used, failure always follows.
In battle would you rather be led by General Patton or a diversity candidate? It is your ass on the line!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/cox/2019/08/08/ask-captain-how-dangerous-cracked-cockpit-windshield/1943362001/
I suspect the window door plug was well designed and good. This is old technology and nothing new. I suspect poor installation was the problem due to lack of standards on the assembly line. The real question is why the lack of standards.
In those two crashes there were major questions about the quality of pilot training vs US protocols for handling emergencies.
Look up the 717.
Historically, most of the American pilots have served time in the military. So they have experience in dealing with emergencies. But now we are having an increasing number of civilian pilots. And they are becoming more diverse. So their training is unlikely going to be like it was in the past.
So that is going to be a problem when they're flying the 737 Max.
Airbus has an aeronautical engineer CEO, while Boeing has an accountant.
Any Japanese employee found responsible would run a sword through his guts while an American in the same boat would be transferred to a different section.
has anyone considered the role of Godzilla in this event?
Oh no, there goes Tokyo!
What an awful thing, so many lives lost because they thought structure could be fixed with software, to save money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuvering_Characteristics_Augmentation_System
I also think going into the mix is that pilots, in general, are becoming more systems managers and less aviators.
The Air France crash, years ago in the Atlantic, was a classic demonstration of that. The crew didn't recognize or know they had to fly out of a stall that their automated systems created with a frozen pitot tube.
Planes can pretty much fly themselves, but the pilot is there for when things go wrong.
Yup, planes pretty much fly themselves until something goes wrong. Just like Tesla cars.
I also think going into the mix is that pilots, in general, are becoming more systems managers and less aviators.
Bingo. How much of what used to be the “work” of a flight that is thrown off to software is scary.
Thanks.
Yep. I got called a “hater” and “alarmist” for saying the same thing last week. I don’t care. They blew it for me.
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