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 ...
>> mid-air window BLOW-OUT
I suppose that’s worse than low-air, but not as bad as high-air.
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 ?
...but Boeing is BIG on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Aircraft construction? ...NOT SO MUCH on this brand new airliner.
It’s mid air as opposed to on the ground
so that’s what they call the emergency exits now...
We all know that Nikki Haley took the money from Boeing.
I'd have insisted on a change of seats. And a new pair of trousers.
As another poster suggested, it appears to be an entire panel.
From a quick observation of the photos, the panel is in the wrong place for the emergency exits (typically overwing or forward) and, children are not permitted in the emergency exit rows.
The NTSB will have a very close look at the area around the missing panel. At this point, I have more questions than answers.
This certainly underscores the wisdom of keeping a seatbelt fastened.
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.
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 ?
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Emergency exit. You are correct Sir.
I expect not secured/reinstalled properly. That exit should not open during pressurized flight. It has to come in first before opening unless design rules have been changed, same as the normal passenger doors.
That passenger who was partially sucked out of a flying plane, and needed two strong men to pull her back in, was named Jennifer Riordan, Bank executive.
The event is quite a story if one is up to reading something so grim on a Friday night. If I ever heard about it before, I must have forgotten. From 2018.
Wouldn’t surprise me
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.
I know an ex Alaska maintenance guy, he said he would bet $100 it was emergency door that was not secured properly by the flight crew and after investigation all flight crew will have to take a refresher course on how to properly close a door.
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