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Brand new Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max suffers mid-air window BLOW-OUT
Daily Mail ^ | January 5, 2024 | ALICE WRIGHT

Posted on 01/05/2024 8:18:39 PM PST by hiho hiho

An Alaska Airlines flight from Portland, Oregon to Ontario, California was forced to make an emergency landing back at Portland Airport less than an hour after takeoff after suffering depressurization.

Alaska flight 1282 left Portland just after 5pm local time on Friday when a window blew out at 16,000 feet, ripping a child's shirt off and sucking passengers phones out of the plane.

The Boeing 737-9 MAX rolled off the assembly line just two months ago, receiving its certification in November 2023, according to FAA record posted online.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: alaskaairlines; boeing; california
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To: hiho hiho

The friggin’ Pedophile has brought the union thugs back on line in America and this is the shoddiness you get.


21 posted on 01/05/2024 10:06:45 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (America!Biden has turned what was one of the greatest documentaries into a one season retard sitcom.)
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To: hiho hiho

What blew out appears to be the plug where an unused exit door would be. The plane was in maintenance at the airline a couple weeks ago. I wonder if they did any work in that area?


22 posted on 01/05/2024 10:31:06 PM PST by ltc8k6 ( .)
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To: algore

Lol nobody read the article. It was normally an emergency escape hatch option that would open inwards. But... Alaska air decided not go with that option and Boeing had secured the hatch and made it look like a regular part of the wall.
Boring messed up really bad.


23 posted on 01/05/2024 10:51:50 PM PST by Pocketdoor
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To: hiho hiho

people laugh at me but I avoid the MAX like the plague.

hopefully it will be permanently grounded before more people die.


24 posted on 01/05/2024 10:58:16 PM PST by KingofZion
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To: Chainmail
No, it was a window.

The article says that Boeing provides an option to have a door or window panel installed in that hole. Alaska chose a window panel.

25 posted on 01/05/2024 11:41:36 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: hiho hiho
Flying s*cks. Driving s*cks. Mass transit s*cks.

I walk wherever I can.

26 posted on 01/05/2024 11:42:31 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

Yes, it’s a plugged door with a window installed in the plug. The whole door plug blew out, not just the window panel.


27 posted on 01/06/2024 12:20:03 AM PST by ltc8k6 ( .)
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To: Chainmail
That wasn’t a window - it was an emergency escape door. What do you want to bet the passenger next to that door opened it ?

From other sources, this was a plugged door, an optional emergency escape door location that is used depending on the seating layout (and I suspect, the stretch).

If true, BA is in for a world of hurt.

28 posted on 01/06/2024 4:18:37 AM PST by NY.SS-Bar9 (Those that vote for a living outnumber those that work for one.)
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To: NY.SS-Bar9

“If true, BA is in for a world of hurt.”

“Little things” like this happen when a company is committed to AA hiring — and Boeing is.


29 posted on 01/06/2024 4:21:46 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.")
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To: Angelino97
Flying s*cks.

I had the displeasure of flying on an AA 737MAX-8

I usually fly Delta, but the AA schedule worked better

The most uncomfortable 4 hours I have ever spent in an aircraft. Never again.

30 posted on 01/06/2024 4:23:51 AM PST by NY.SS-Bar9 (Those that vote for a living outnumber those that work for one.)
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To: ltc8k6

Given the labor issues AA has been having of late, I’d also be concerned about sabotage.


31 posted on 01/06/2024 4:27:30 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: NY.SS-Bar9

That makes sense. Seating was NOT configured for an exit row there.


32 posted on 01/06/2024 4:35:41 AM PST by kjam22
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To: mewzilla
Update...

Alaska Airlines grounds Boeing 737-9 fleet after emergency landing in Portland

Coukd Boeing have PO'd Deep State...?

33 posted on 01/06/2024 4:52:19 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: All

Evidently, it depends on how seating is configured as to whether an emergency exit is required. If the plane is configured for all economy class with seating for 220, then emergency exits at the blowout point would be required.


34 posted on 01/06/2024 5:01:11 AM PST by EVO X ( )
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To: Reverend Wright

Stonecipher, who promptly affirmed: “When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/how-boeing-lost-its-bearings/602188/

Boeing took over McDonnell Douglas, but the financial mentality of McD took over Boeing.

The finance focus seems to work in the short term. But the cost cutting means the engineering soon turns to crap, and the product becomes substandard and dangerous.
***********
You are exactly correct. The beancounter mentality of McDonnell Douglas took over and Boeing turned from excellent to mediocre.


35 posted on 01/06/2024 5:09:24 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: hiho hiho

Is the plane still covered under warranty? Is the part covered?


36 posted on 01/06/2024 5:14:46 AM PST by moviefan8 (The noblest art is that of making others happy. - P.T. Barnum)
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To: hiho hiho

This is a rare case where reading the article becomes important to an understanding of what was really going on.

Every blown out window I have had knowledge of on a large aircraft at altitude, has turned into death when an individual seated close to the window has been partially sucked out of the window. I think two cases if memory serves. One civilian and one military.

In this case a truly unusual circumstance when a window that might have been a door under other circumstances, departs the aircraft leaving a hole much larger that could easily suck out passengers. They might have been very fortunate to have been belted in while the aircraft was on climb out from Portland.

Cell phones and a shirt are replaceable.


37 posted on 01/06/2024 5:36:47 AM PST by wita (Under oath since 1966 in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness)
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To: NY.SS-Bar9

It is true.


38 posted on 01/06/2024 9:06:10 AM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: hiho hiho

Boeing has really gone Shiite to since they moved Company Hq to Chicago. Bring it back to Seattle and fire all the non-engineers they brought in to run it.
This crud never happened on my watch or my families and friends watch!
Boeing experimental flight test, Seattle 1979-2000.
Like me, many of my family, most my close friends worked at, and retired from Seattle area Boeing.


39 posted on 01/06/2024 9:26:03 AM PST by rellic (the "woods)
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To: steve86

Again, link to the article:

Http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12932631/Brand-new-Alaska-Airlines-Boeing-737-Max-suffers-mid-air-window-BLOW-causing-depressurization-ripped-childs-shirt-jet-returned-Portland-Airport-High-tech-jet-suffered-two-deadly


40 posted on 01/06/2024 9:44:19 AM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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