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If You Every Fly Alaska Airlines, Avoid the Window Seat

Saturday, 6 January 2024, 21:00 Dr. Tar Uncategorized 52

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Alaska Airlines has grounded its fleet of Boeing 737 Max 9s hours after one such aircraft suffered a window blow-out after take-off.

Airline chief Ben Minicucci says the airline is taking “the precautionary step” to ground the Max 9s for “full maintenance and safety inspections”. More

52 Comments on If You Every Fly Alaska Airlines, Avoid the Window Seat

  3. This is being blown way out of proportion. If you read the headlines they would convince you a big chunk of the aircrafts “SKIN” left town. It was a window insert. Meaning the frame for the window and the sheet metal around it. Is grounding the aircraft appropriate? Yes. Is a major design flaw. No.

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  6. Or bad workmanship, easy to blame on parts, but come on man people are soooo lazy & have lost pride in work skills, but sure blame it on parts, which is BULLSHIT! Parts like this are put thru quality control process, stress test, someone failed at their job period !!!

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  10. They are just SERIOUSLY LUCKY that this happened while they were still climbing and the seat belt sign was lit. Had they been cruising, with lots of folks walking to the bathroom, the drink cart in the aisle, etc. they death toll could have been quite large. Boeing is a POS company that clearly can NO LONGER manufacture SAFE airplanes. Seriously, this is the kind of basic shit that should be a NO BRAINER for EVERY plane they build. SERIOUSLY!!!

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  13. See not my fault, comment did not show up, but never the less excuse me for a dup comment, maybe next time I’ll check some how differently.
    Ok, I will rephase my comment, Benito your drunk, before me there were no anonypous comments ??? So who are you wet-dreaming bout???

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  17. @Brad — Are you sure about that? I’ve now read multiple accounts, and seen lots of images. The common description is that what blew out was an emergency exit door that had been deactivated and hard locked because that aircraft wasn’t configured with enough seats to make that door necessary. The images I’ve seen have all shown a hole that is very much larger than a standard airliner window. The one I’m looking at right now at https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/large-piece-new-alaska-airlines-plane-blows-mid/ seems to be over two feet wide and three feet tall. That’s no “window insert” by any reasonable definition of the term.

    I’d like to be wrong. I’d prefer to think that Boeing and Alaska Air weren’t as negligent as they appear to be.

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  29. “Brad, it was the emergency DOOR !”

    Thanks guys. I’m still seeing a clean profile. Meaning what left didn’t leave a jagged edge, our an irregular hole. Are yo seeing something different?

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  32. I’m flying Alaska this Tuesday from San to Tam with my entire family. This was the model plane we were supposed to be on. I’ve heard they are replacing it with an older model. Weee! Should be fun.

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  34. I’m thinking there just about had to be some kind of assembly or manufacturing defect there. those emergency exit doors are “plug” doors that have to be pulled into the airplane first and then thrown out through the hole. If the plane was already pressurized, there’s no way that plug could have moved even if it was unlocked.

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  41. I refuse to fly Alaska because of inexcusably obnoxious gay Flight attendant, rude mask Nazi female FAs. Alaska Airlines; where customers are tolerated and DEI is celebrated. I’d rather drive for 3 days than fly for three hours. And I made my money in aviation.

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  43. I try not to fly Alaska Airlines because I don’t need to fly to Alaska. Hey, them and Southwest. I mean, who wants to go there?

    (***HORN*** God, that was dumb. Sorry.)

    Boeing – sad. No longer our father’s company.

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  44. That wasn’t a door or hatch. It is basically a blanking plug attached to an opening in the fuselage where a door or hatch can be installed. You can see the attachment points still on the framing around the opening.

    Doors are larger than the opening and have to open inward. This is why they cannot be opened when the aircraft is pressurized. The higher internal pressure is forcing the door into the sealing surface of the frame.

    There were no movable parts (hinges, latches, levers) on this part that blew out.

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  47. …here’s where Southwest Airlines has enhanced window seating…

    https://mashable.com/article/southwest-airlines-1380-air-traffic-control-audio

    …I love how, after 3:50, when informed “there’s a hole and someone went out”, the worlds calmest duspatcher dispatcher chews on that for just a moment, then says correctly “Doesn’t matter” because at that time it doesn’t, then goes on to get them on the ground before they lose anyone else.

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  51. ¡BENITO THE BOMBED BEANER! SATURDAY, 6 JANUARY 2024, 21:29 AT 9:29 PM
    I THINK IT’S OK TO HAVE OPEN HOLE OPTION IN CASE WE HAVE INSANE PEOPLE WE NEED TO TOSS OUT

    LIKE ANONYMOUSES

    SIGN OF THE TIMES

    If you’re going to pick on me, at least spell it correctly – Anymouse –
    And by the way, when did I ever piss in your Wheaties?

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  52. @Brad

    Are you sure it was Aloha and not Hawaiian Air Lines? According to Wikipedia, Aloha ceased operations in 2008, but I have seen their cargo jets at the Honolulu airport since then. I thought is was just cargo that survived.

    But maybe Aloha passenger service has started again. If that’s the case, you are right.

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