Posted on 04/03/2024 5:19:08 PM PDT by libh8er
An Alaska Airlines flight from Honolulu to Anchorage, Alaska, had to turn around after a malfunctioning bathroom sink flooded the cabin of the Boeing 737 Max 9 jet, according to reports.
The flight took off at 10:16 p.m. Friday, according to FlightAware. When the water began leaking about 90 minutes into the flight, the captain of Alaska Airlines Flight 828 decided to turn around, according to the Daily Mail. The plane landed back at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport two hours and 18 minutes after initial takeoff.
"There was probably two to four inches of standing water that swooshed out as soon as you opened that front door of the lavatory," flight passenger Dustin Parker told KTUU-TV. I would say an hour and a half into the flight is when we noticed the water and it was significant. The entire floorboards of that airplane [were] completely wet."
Video shared by Parker shows a flight attendant throwing paper towels on the plane's floor in an attempt to mop up the water. The center aisle can be seen glistening from what appears to be the front of the plane all the way to the back. Eventually, the paper towels are swapped out with what looks like blue blankets.
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They need to fly higher.
Aloha Boeing!
Someone threw a women’s (period) pad in the lavatory?
It had a Christian undertone and I enjoyed it.....
The Euro Airbus will end up owning the commercial air transport industry.
What Boeing needs is a CEO who gets planes out the door that don’t routinely generate Maalox moments for the company’s long-suffering shareholders.
At this point, I think I’ll never be taking a flight again.
The airline industry has become a serious mess.
DEI??
There needs to be a purge McDonnell Douglas culture.
Probably someone from the shallow end of the IQ pool tried to flush a loaded diaper down the toilet.
Ha. Riding low.
Surf was up and what better longboard could the new school pilot find to bring back his youth when he would hang five whenever he saw a humpback and today there was a brief lull before this big nug and then a huge macking and it was peeling with a sudden closeout and he hit the lip in the impact zone and was into the soup when the jacking started and he finished with a kickout. He didn’t care what the shubies thought. This dude knew he was tubular.
Hard to believe such incompetence. Are certain employees doing this on purpose to take business away from them?
Will we ever know?
Gotta adjust the carburetors.
CC
My only question.
Open a door and let the water drain out.
I read that Boeing is working on 797. They need to get rid of 737 Max line. And stop building them. If it takes them 5 years to develop 797, so be it. Airbus won't be able to build all the planes. All the airlines will continue to fly the old planes longer. Boeing need to take the time and design 797 the right way.
So what? The toilet apparently got plugged. This is not a Boeing problem. Much ado about…nothing. But fear generates clicks.
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