Brand New Boeing 737-9 MAX has its door blown out midair reaching 16,000 feet. Alaska Airlines flight to ONTARIO, CA. Made emergency landing in Portland, OR. Airline is grounding all such planes.
Boeing is asking U.S. federal regulators to exempt a new model of its 737 Max airliner from a safety standard designed to prevent part of the engine housing from overheating and breaking off during flight.
No, it's a whole hatch that got blown out. Odd because hatches usually had flanges on the outside of the fuselage so when opened the hatch had to be brought to the inside not outside.
Might be everybody getting in too much of a rush again... Boeing with a backlog of some 3,600 orders on the 737 MAX 7's through 10's is adding 737 MAX assembly lines to put them out. While Alaskan Airlines is buying like crazy and plans on merging Hawaiian Airlines into the fold. As to this newest accident, isn't the 737 MAX a composite built plane?
Far too early to speculate. Should not be enough pressure cycles to cause material fatigue (like what happened to a Hawaiian Air 737 years ago) but you never know. They have the plane intact, so forensic analysis will be both easy and very intensive.
Will never forget back in 2000, a couple weeks before me and the wife went to Alaska, an Alaskan Airlines plane went down right off the coast near the Channel Islands. Don't remember what kind of plane it was, believe it was later found to be no grease on the elevator nut... killed everyone on board.
No, it's a whole hatch that got blown out. Odd because hatches usually had flanges on the outside of the fuselage so when opened the hatch had to be brought to the inside not outside.
That's better!
That plane is cursed.
Paul
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
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Will never forget back in 2000, a couple weeks before me and the wife went to Alaska, an Alaskan Airlines plane went down right off the coast near the Channel Islands. Don't remember what kind of plane it was, believe it was later found to be no grease on the elevator nut... killed everyone on board.
Phil
"Whose bright idea was it to put every idiot in the world in touch with every other idiot? It's working!" -- P. J. O'Rourke
mn good thing they weren't at a higher altitude...
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