Posted on 01/09/2024 1:34:04 PM PST by billorites
Who the hell was responsible for signing off that assembly inspection?
When I worked at Lockheed on the L1011 and S3 Viking, every single part and assembly was individually inspected and stamped with the inspector’s initials.
Well, that’s nice to let our enemies know about aircraft vulnerabilities.
Dumba$$es.
Ok...
So now everyone knows how to bypass cockpit security doors. Great.
Blast from the past(Actually happened more than once before they fixed the problem):
On June 12, 1972, the left rear cargo door of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 operating the flight blew open and broke off en route between Detroit and Buffalo above Windsor, Ontario; the accident is thus sometimes referred to as the Windsor incident, although according to the NTSB it is an accident, not an incident.
U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators found the cargo door design to be dangerously flawed, as the door could be closed without the locking mechanism fully engaged, and this condition was not apparent from visual inspection of the door nor from the cargo-door indicator in the cockpit.
small set of suspects...
As a computer programmer, all bugs are really undocumented features.
In nuclear power plant construction, every single welding rod is tracked.
Too many side issues but if the aircraft has that kind of a problem I would not be surprised.
As an engineer, all unknowns are unverified assumptions.
The blown out door was found in a physics teacher’s back yard in suburban Portland, and two cell phones still working have also been found nearby.
>>All three of the visible bolts are loose. The hidden fourth bolt probably is too.
Clearances look tight. They might be inconvenient to tighten, except by hand.
Was it wise to broadcast this to the entire Muslim world?
The only reason why the cockpit doors are designed to open on rapid depressurization is because the FAA told them to.
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