Posted on 01/08/2024 8:40:34 AM PST by george76
A horrifying series of videos shared Friday showed the moment a window panel off an Alaska Airlines flight, and it turns out there were already concerns over the aircraft before takeoff.
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there was a significant concern over the aircraft’s safety well before the incident occurred,
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The aircraft was not being used for flights to Hawaii because a warning light already indicated there were pressurization problems on three different trips before the one where the door panel blew off. Alaska Airlines had apparently restricted longer flights over water so it “could return very quickly to an airport” if the warning light went off, National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy
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Homendy tried to say there’s no known connection between the pressurization light and the near-devastating disaster, which honestly doesn’t make me feel any better. It actually makes me feel like everything I thought I know about air travel is a lie, and we’ve all been winging it with our lives … literally.
Passengers aboard this flight seemingly had no idea the aircraft already had issues. People in positions of power were comfortable letting almost 200 people, including their own employees, take off in this aircraft, knowing it wasn’t working properly — even if just in a small way.
Alaska Airlines did not immediately return emails from the Daily Caller asking why the aircraft was allowed to take off with a known problem with the pressurization, and who allowed this to happen with 170 souls aboard.
Window? How about over wing emergency exit?
Maybe they should install 3 point seatbelts.
I don’t see how opening that would help. it’d just make things worse.
The content didn’t live up to the scare headline.
That's why I always demand to see the maintenance records of the aircraft at the gate before I board. /Sarc.
Looks like an exit but it’s not — this model moved them to the rear and Boeing just replaced the door with a module making it look like a normal window from the interior. Looks like they didn’t engineer the modification correctly.
It's your job to report the news, ya schmucks, not tell me what to think, feel, or do.
Stupid headline
Should read..... You’ll Never Fly a Boeing 737 Max 9 Again After Learning What Really Happened With Alaska Airliner’s Door Explosion
But who really is to blame here? The FAA who knew this could happen? Alaska Airlines? Boeing?
All of the above.
Passengers aboard this flight seemingly had no idea the aircraft already had issues. People in positions of power were comfortable letting almost 200 people, including their own employees, take off in this aircraft, knowing it wasn’t working properly — even if just in a small way.
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Of course they didn’t.
It’s risk management versus profit.
To take a jet out of the fleet for repair causes disruptions which costs money.
If they actually really thought it was going to cause a mid-flight failure, they likely would have done it, but I am going to assume that people in positions of management who make decisions about what will cause problems and what are repairs that can be delayed.
I wouldn’t want to be one of those people.
If you are overly cautious, they’d probably fire you for causing disruptions in service.
If you are not cautious enough, or unlucky, they’ll blame you for not being cautious.
True. I noticed that right away. See post 9.
Looks to me like that is what blew out. Not just a window. Ill let you know if the NTSB calls me. 🤔🛫🛬
Looks like it.
Got it. Thanks.
I never worry about the check engine light on my car.
But this light seems a little more important.
meh, everything this country cranks out anymore is defective junk. There are no standards of excellence. We have poorly educated and poorly trained people cutting corners.
About like that stupid submersible that imploded about a year ago. Piece of untested junk about like those untested fake vaxes that were forced into people and is killing them.
What happened America?
LOL.
Hey, nobody's perfect.
It was found in a teacher’s backyard in Portland. Good thing it didn’t land on someone’s head.
I haven’t flown for about 15 years and didn’t want to then. Not afraid of flying, just too much bs.
Especially when you hire people with their skin color and sexual preference being more important than their actual skill and experience.
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