[Larry Lucido]

I hope the tail section is bolted down good, at least.

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[zencat]

Are they using square windows again?

[Archangelsk]

Ping.

[Servant of the 9]

The flight crew put out the fire with an extinguisher in three seconds and then brought the plane down to 10,000 feet. That reduced the difference between the pressurized cockpit and the thin air outside, said Bill Waldock, aviation safety professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Arizona. The danger at high altitudes is that the windshield could shatter and loose items or people could be sucked out, though that's never happened on a commercial flight.

If the windshield goes, I imagine the ram air effect would keep everything in the plane. The problem would be keeping a crew in the cockpit insteadof the tail.

And yes, a stew was sucked out of a 737 out of Hawaii a few years ago, when the top blew off.

So9

[dts32041]

Has boeing been using the chicken gun again?

[Central Scrutiniser]

I'll take the 777 over the MD-11 any day, it is the worst built of all american planes.

I wouldn't worry, I did 10 hours once on an Ilyushin 62M that was older than its pilots, that is a scary plane, ditto for Tu154 and Tu134.

[avg_freeper]

I wonder if this section 41 is made in Wichita KS.

[KansasCanadian]

I used to pretend I "worked" for PanAm Airlines and "dead-head" in the cockpit quite a bit. I really didn't know a whole lot about flying at first, but watching the pilots, and being observant, I actually picked up the basics of flying commercial airlines, and even filled in occasionally when the pilots wanted to chat with the passengers in flight. Since PanAm had no idea that i was doing this, and actually was trying to put and stop to it and even involved the FBI to catch me if they could. They finally did, but not until after I forged PanAm paychecks and cashed them to the tune of $1.5 million. When things got too hot, I went to work as a doctor...

[Last Dakotan]

Boeing also is developing circuit breakers....

You'd think they would have already had them. What does $200 million buy anyways?