Posted on 01/06/2024 5:18:36 AM PST by fruser1
Alaska flight 1282, a Boeing 737-9 MAX bound for Ontario in California, left Portland just after 5pm local time on Friday when a deactivated emergency door used as a regular cabin window blew out at 16,000 feet. The controversial jet was carrying 171 passengers and six crew.
...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
Miraculously, no injuries were reported on the plane, which had only gone into service in November 2023. Boeing, Alaska Airlines and the National Transportation Safety Board have all launched investigations.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I hear they tracked the person who checked the window at Boeing. Her name is LaQuisha Jones. She said she don’t know nuthin about it and promptly assaulted the person asking her questions. I guess her wig came off in all the commotion.
Investigators are still stumped as what could have possibly gone wrong. Stay tuned.
Thanks for the laugh! Needed that. And yes, a planeload of Believers is what soon thereafter landed...
Media has created a society of, everyone wants to be a movie star, that and Google/other cash are creating a society of drones/robots(forget about AI(artificial intelligence), so many of today's yutes ARE AI).
To be fair, this isn't a new concept...masses have been manipulated for millennial.
"World domination. The same old dream. Our asylums are full of people who think they're Napoleon. Or God." - James Bond.
Difference now is...technology IS making it possible to HAVE "world domination"...and that power is in the hands of a handful of evil, perverted, greedy... "gods".
Those of us who feel "covid" was "manufactured"...have to wonder if some mad scientist had the power to create a mass extinction of "deplorable's" by mapping someones political bent based on DNA/etc...they wouldn't "create" a "crisis", and a "vaccine" for a "cure"...???
"To serve man, it's a cookbook"
“Yup, get rid of all those 50+ yr old white guys in favor of DEI and other cheap labor.”
pretty much my first thought as well ...
“Better to blow at 16000 feet than at 40000!”
Anyone who has been to the altitude chamber and has experienced rapid decompression would know that you are 100% correct. The difference between the time of useful consciousness at 16,000 versus 40,000 is unbelievable.
The one thing that I have always said is that every airline pilot should be required to go through the alt chamber to experience that. Only us military pilots typically have been through any of that training. It is hugely important (says the 747 CPT).
Boeing is going downhill with their product quality. Not just in aircraft.
KEEP IN MIND:
Biden’s Dept of Labor is trying to sue MUSK’s SPACE OPERATIONS for not hiring more NON-CITIZENS & for letting the ones he found there off the payroll.
I know quite a few people who worked at Lockheed-—North american-—Rocketdyne, etc.
NO PERSON COULD BE HIRED THAT DIDN’T PASS A VERY STRONG BACKGROUND CHECK-—AFTER PROVING THEY WERE AMERICANS.
YOU WIN TODAY’S POSTS
As an aside, why in the world are they still designing passenger windows in jetliners? Couldn’t they substitute monitors displaying exterior camera views?
“..plane window BLEW OUT over Portland..”
Extreme air pressure differential over the Portland suck.
A "plug" design means, that the hatch is pulled into the aircraft, then its positioning is altered by the holder, and next, that person holding the hatch is supposed to toss the hatch out thru the "fresh" opening:
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-closeup-of-an-airline-safety-card-showing-how-to-evacuate-in-the-event-39540759.html
But, the Boeing 737 NG/MAX emergency hatch (including window, usually), is external, hinged, and pops up - outside the hull - like an old wooden ship's gun port.
EXCERPTS (including photo) from an article:
[Scroll down to:] The Boeing 737 Next Generation (NG) Series
Big changes came with the NG in the over-the-wing emergency exit door configuration. The airframe construction was beefed up to handle a rapid response emergency hatch, and the door design itself is completely different than in the past 737 Classic Series construction.
The over-wing exit doors on the 737 NG Series are equipped with electronic locks that engage only when the plane is in flight. If the plane slows to a near stop or loses altitude, the door will unlock. Also, since the locks require electricity to hold the door closed, a loss of aircraft power will return them to the unlocked position.
Flight attendants sometimes are required to guard these doors based on any minor malfunction with the system. The good news is that a malfunctioning emergency door lock has never prevented escape in a true aircraft emergency.
Why the Design Change:
The 737 NG over-the-wing exits were redesigned in light of human factor research—in particular, the Manchester UK Air Disaster, which involved a British Air Tours Boeing 737-236, where passengers demonstrated difficulty in opening over-the-wing hatch-style exits by passengers during times of duress. The benefits of the 737 NG design is it is exceptionally easy to open. The only step is to pull down on the red handle. The door itself will swing out . . .
The density altitude really wasn’t that high. Not that much higher than the summit of Mt. Hood.
I have trained quite a few airline pilots with military experience, as well as those without it. Experiencing an altitude chamber is not a panacea, neither does not experiencing it make one naive to the effect of hypoxia. Many pilots don’t understand the significance of startle factor. Additionally, many do not think subtle incapacitation affects them.
The dirty secret is many airline pilots loathe putting on and stowing the mask. Removing the mandatory O2 above FL250 with one pilot at controls in 2020 did not help that problem.
boeing is run by bean counters now due to all the company buying other manufactures, this is also the reason why they starliner space craft is so far behind, no real engineers anymore.
Sounds like someone didn’t install the door properly. About 20 years ago, I was sitting next to an emergency exit on a flight from Denver to Pittsburgh. It was an earlier model 737. When the engines started, I thought that it was a lot louder than normal. As we started to taxi, I could feel the exit shift a bit on my shoulder. It was a night flight and as I looked around I notice that I could see a hint of light around the seal and I could fit my little finger around the plastic trim. This was about the time we were starting our takeoff roll. I had been a flight engineer on C-5s during my time in the Air Force and knew that the window would seat itself once the aircraft pressurized when the gear came off the ground. Sure enough, the exit sealed. I took the bag that was in the front pouch and wrote the discrepancy and asked the flight attendant to take it up to the crew. When we landed, the exit hatch loosened up again when the cabin pressure once again equalized due to the landing gear equalization switch activating. This switch ensures that the cabin is not pressurized while on the ground in case of evacuation. I passed by the flight deck and asked the crew if they got my message. They said they did and entered it into the maintenance log just as I wrote it.
hahaha....thanks! :)
It was a DOOR not a window, idiot!
Not operational, not required on this configuration, covered over with a panel on the inside, you wouldn’t even know it was there to look at it.
It was some manufacturing defect/design flaw.
NO ONE HAD ACCESS TO THIS DOOR EVER! BUILT THIS WAY. Only used on planes configured for maximum number of passengers.
Actually, it was a plug inserted into a space where an extra entry/exit door could be installed. Some carriers with higher density seating install a door there which now allows them to be certified to carry a higher passenger volume.
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