>> mid-air window BLOW-OUT
I suppose that’s worse than low-air, but not as bad as high-air.
...but Boeing is BIG on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Aircraft construction? ...NOT SO MUCH on this brand new airliner.
so that’s what they call the emergency exits now...
I'd have insisted on a change of seats. And a new pair of trousers.
If it’s Boring I ain’t going......,
Not surprising if they didn’t pump all that noxious Portland air out of the plane before takeoff...
And I read something today about Boeing asking the FAA to waive some safety rules for the new Max,
35 years ago, I was in my company’s corporate quality office.
Boeing was then held up as an example of the best of TQM (total quality management).
Looks like times have changed drastically.
My wife is flying Alaska tomorrow and passed on an exit row seat because they wanted $63 extra for it.
The friggin’ Pedophile has brought the union thugs back on line in America and this is the shoddiness you get.
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?
people laugh at me but I avoid the MAX like the plague.
hopefully it will be permanently grounded before more people die.
I walk wherever I can.
Is the plane still covered under warranty? Is the part covered?
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.
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.
The door itself appears to be neatly removed with no other fuselage damage. It looks as though the door was not latched when it departed. This is a decommissioned emergency exit door door with a panel covering it inside the cabin to prevent it being used. It’s almost as if they forgot to latch it fully when they decommissioned it.
The side of the plane basically looks like it would look if someone opened the emergency exit.
Explanation of the Boeing 737 -900 MAX emergency exit door. It is a “plug” -type but dynamic. The door hinges downward on the outside of the aircraft:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw4eQGAmXQ0