Posted on 01/09/2024 10:09:29 PM PST by Dr. Franklin
Last week, passengers on board an Alaska Airlines flight were rattled by a terrifying incident involving a "door plug" being ripped out of the Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet that was taking them from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California.
The following "violent explosive decompression event," as National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy later described it, forced pilots to return back to the ground — though luckily, nobody got seriously injured.
As regulators pore over the data — the offending door plug has since been recovered alongside a fully intact iPhone from one of the passengers — new questions have arisen over the events that led to the incident.
As The American Prospect reports, the plug door, which was designed to seal a hole in the fuselage that's used in some other configurations as a door opening, was possibly the result of "cost-cutting production techniques to facilitate cramming more passengers into the cabin."
The plug door was a fix to still meet Federal Aviation Administration requirements in the case of high-capacity passenger seat layouts without having to make major changes to the fuselage design. "There are a lot of different ways to configure an aircraft to pack in air travelers like cattle, but it changed the calculus for manufacturers to meet standards," airline industry expert Bill McGee told the Prospect.
Worse yet, court documents obtained by The Lever suggest that former employees at Boeing spinoff Spirit AeroSystems, the company Boeing subcontracted to manufacture these plug doors, told Boeing officials about an "excessive amount of defects."
Instead of heeding these warnings, internal correspondence reviewed ... suggest that officials told these former employees to falsify records.
One employee told a coworker that "he believed it was just a matter of time until a major defect escaped to a customer," per the report.
(Excerpt) Read more at futurism.com ...
It was not a door. It was a “door plug.”
Complex systems are not compatible with DEI. Nor are they compatible with companies ruled by Human Resources that have purged the workplace of all the anti-social geniuses who brought great ideas and took risks even if they made their female coworkers feel uncomfortable.
These men are gone.
Because they are cheaper, and most importantly, vote Demonrat, diversity hires are being mandated, under threat of Demonrat government attack. Most of these third-string hires never had the ability to create or maintain complex systems, which goes doubly for recent FAA hires. DEI makes people DIE.
What happened to the 2 passengers sitting in the seats next to the door plug.... 😆😜
More leg room they say. You know they sold those seats.
Maybe 2 orphans were there and the airlines got lucky. Shh...
I haven’t heard.
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