If it’s Boeing, I’m not going.
Yes it was a Max 9, and yes wait for the aviation herald report for details.
We usually start New Year’s with good news and promises we won’t keep… Not with total failures. This is not good for their reputation.
Nothing they’ve been doing has been good for their reputation for about 5 or 6 years now. That’s what happens when people who don’t understand the industry start being managers rather than engineers.
According to this news site, it’s only a 2 month old plane. https://abc30.com/alaska-airlines-flight-emergency-landing-plane-window-blown-out-ontario-california/14284437/
Most defects appear either early or late into a products lifecycle
Apparently some planes are designed so the side doesn’t fall off at all. I just don’t want people thinking planes aren’t safe!
Was this plane safe?
I was thinking more of the other ones.
Not really a window. It’s a plug put in where an optional emergency exit door would be. (Or so I’ve read elsewhere)
Oh, well that’s completely fine then.
New functional emergency exit. Actually working better than designed.
This type of aircraft comes equipped with a rear emergency exit door, used mainly by international airlines, and has a seat configuration that allows for more passengers on the plane. Most U.S. airliners don’t use that configuration and design the area to appear as a window from the inside of the aircraft.
Assuming you aren’t petrified, we’ve got some incredible new views we bet you thought were previously impossible!
Optional?!
Imagine the lawsuits if/when somebody dies due to an onboard fire/smoke.
I wouldn’t take this seriously if it weren’t for the fact that Boeing’s propensity for up-charging for basic safety features didn’t contribute to the crashes of two 737 Max 8.
It’s optional based on on the interior buildout of the plane. It depends on the number of seats and seating arrangement. When it’s not needed for an order, they bolt in a “plug” that fills the space where the door would have been.
Ah, okay. That makes sense.
Optional, yes. They put emergency exits in different places depending on the seating arrangement ordered.
Is it bad that my first thought on reading the headline was ‘it’s gonna be a fucking MAX, isn’t it?’
I remember watching a documentary that went over how the corporate culture in Boeing changed post the McDonnell Douglas accusation. The last plane that was done right was the 777.
‘There was a kid in that row, his shirt was sucked off him and out of the plane. His mother was holding onto him to make sure he didn’t go with it,’ a man on the first flight said
New phobia unlocked
Unexpected in-flight ventilation.
Well, the fact that it was still able to make the landing is remarkable. This isn’t the Comet after all…
Airplanes are crazy over engineered. Something like half the systems can fail and they’ll still be able to land the plane.
The safety regulations are written in blood, but they’ve continually prevented more disasters.
I’m sure the MAX 9 is going to have a lot of investigation done very soon.
Boeing is trying hard to unravel all that
Very different modes of failure. Metal fatigue ripping apart fault lines in structural metal is very different from an emergency exit door popping out.
The amount of bullshit ads at the end of the article
Get an ad blocker, my friend. They will charge your online life.
But will they charge my phone?
They will save charge on your phone by not using it on useless advertising
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It’s not a window, look at the photo in the article.