Come on, Boeing.

[cvanc]

That plane was brand new. You really look like the gang who can't shoot straight these days.

 

[kuririn]

Is this about the blown out window? I read a headline in passing about that this morning.

 

[dr wogz]

report this morning..

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/alaska...out-nearly-5-kilometres-over-oregon-1.6714283

 

[MClark]

Looked like an emergency door.
The latch parts on airframe look intact.
Not closed properly?
A passenger yanked on handle?

 

[MarsLander]

Door.

 

[jsdemar]

It's an optional door location. Alaska air ordered it without the door. The insert blew out.
I read they grounded all the 737 MAXes.

 

[rcktnut]

Optional door, in this plane it wasn't supposed to be.
From news article: Those are spots in the fuselage shaped similar to a door that aren't designed to open, even when the aircraft is on the ground. They could be converted to doors if the airline needs an extra boarding door.

 

[jderimig]

It's an optional door location. Alaska air ordered it without the door. The insert blew out.
I read they grounded all the 737 MAXes.

Not enough pins in the design.

 

[jsdemar]

Not enough pins in the design.

Maybe there were enough pins in the design but not too few in the implementation.

 

[ThirstyBarbarian]

That’s the mid-air exit door.

 

[SDramstad]

This is what happens to a company when the engineers are thrown off the BOD and replaced by the bean counters.

 

[cvanc]

Does the close-up suggest the "no door" option is more like the "we just deleted the handle" option?

 

[kuririn]

Not enough pins in the design.

Maybe they used shear pins.

 

[GlenP]

Door.
View attachment 623064

When is a door not a door?

When it is ajar.

 

[dr wogz]

a jar door

 

[dr wogz]

update:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/boeing...e-suffers-a-gaping-hole-in-its-side-1.6714436

 

[ThirstyBarbarian]

Good thing they weren’t at 30,000 feet when this happened. And also a good thing no one was sitting in the seat right next to the hole.

 

[kuririn]

a jar door

View attachment 623094

Right back at you:

 

[tsmmiller]

This is what happens to a company when the engineers are thrown off the BOD and replaced by the bean counters.

Exactly, Phil Condit was the last of the engineers to run the company. After him Stonecipher took over and began the long journey down to emulate what he had done to his previous company.
He was all about the $$$ and the ways he could make cuts to make more $$$$

 

[kuririn]

And also a good thing no one was sitting in the seat right next to the hole.

Initial reports I have read say that a boy and his mom were sitting there, and that the boy lost his shirt.
Gives new meaning to the expression "Boy, I really lost my shirt on that one".

 

[Ronz Rocketz]

Umm...

 

[tsmmiller]

Umm...

View attachment 623100

OOOhhhhhhKay. Maybe I don't feel quite so embarrassed now!

 

[Voyhager3]

Umm...

View attachment 623100

I love those 747 max 9s that very much do exist
Definitely 100% real, no fake

 

[Ronz Rocketz]

I love those 747 max 9s that very much do exist
Definitely 100% real, no fake

If someone tries to sell you a seat on a 747 Max 9, then walk away.

 

[Blast it Tom!]

Initial reports I have read say that a boy and his mom were sitting there, and that the boy lost his shirt.
Gives new meaning to the expression "Boy, I really lost my shirt on that one".

Ok, I raised 5 kids and have 6 grandkids. I know what it takes to get a shirt off of a kid. Thank Almighty God and/or an apparently a tight seat belt and probably Mom holding on for dear life that he didn't get sucked out. What a terrifying ordeal that must have been! All the way down, figure approach and landing is what, about 170 mph?

 

[ThirstyBarbarian]

Initial reports I have read say that a boy and his mom were sitting there, and that the boy lost his shirt.

Are we sure “shirt” is not an autocorrect? Did it say he lost his “ducking shirt”?

 

[kuririn]

 

[MarsLander]

EAD issued on all with mid cabin door plug installed:

https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExt...22693486620240106201913.0001?modalOpened=true

 

[kuririn]

View attachment 623107

He must have used Testors Blue instead of Testors Red.

 

[kuririn]

EAD issued on all with mid cabin door plug installed:

https://drs.faa.gov/browse/excelExt...22693486620240106201913.0001?modalOpened=true

So I guess the technical term for it is plug, not door?