Another Alaska Airlines incident

China Southern Airlines says, "Nihao, Boeing pengyou, hold my Tsingtao." And then detailed how they have to explain to passengers that it is actually NOT good luck to throw coins into the engine of the plane that you are about to fly on. A flight in Hainan was delayed four hours while the engine was re-checked for fitness for service after fishing out the coins a passenger threw in.

A Chinese airline warned passengers not to throw coins into plane engines after an Airbus A350 was delayed for 4 hours

Once again, Boeing engineers, still hung over from partying after the Indonesian airline story, cheered and vomited with joy at the news that the plane was another Airbus model.

 

Yes, but how many shots did he fire?

 

This is not at all frightening.

Passenger on Boeing flight that suddenly dropped says pilot told him he lost control after instrument failure | CNN

 

if true, that pilot was lying

Pilot-Seat Blunder Led to Latam Mid-Air Plunge, WSJ Reports (msn.com)

A mishap with a cockpit seat may have thrust the pilot into the controls of a Boeing Co. 787 plane flying to New Zealand this week, triggering the sudden plunge that injured 50 passengers, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing US officials familiar with the investigation.

A flight attendant serving a meal on the Latam flight hit a switch on the seat, propelling the pilot forward and pushing down the aircraft’s nose, the newspaper said. According to the report, the switch is fitted with a cover and isn’t meant to be pressed if a person is in the seat.
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Latam has described the mid-air plunge as a “technical event during the flight, which caused a strong movement.”

 

Interesting! I was wondering how a loss of instrumentation and controls could cause such a drastic immediate dive. That makes much more sense.

 

makes me feel better, and I don't fly as much as you

 

Lawsuits pending

 

When is there not?

 

The record for a human surviving from a drop in a plane crash is 33,330 feet. A Serbian flight attendant was stuck in the plane when it came apart when a briefcase bomb went off in 1972. All of the other passengers were blown clear and died. She was trapped by a food trolley.

Vesna Vulović - Wikipedia

Another woman survived a 14,000-foot drop when her parachute failed to open.

Woman Survived 14,000-Feet Fall After Parachute Failed To Open. Read Her Incredible Story

Apparently, men either aren't as good at surviving these incidents or are better at checking their parachutes.

 

United Airlines has another incident with a Boeing 737 airplane, with an external panel (on the fuselage, below the wing, behind the main landing gear) ripped off the plane. A small part of the panel was still bolted to the plane. Fortunately, it was an older 737-800, and not the 737-MAX. Boeing's younger engineers will have a laugh at the older ones, once they sober up from the previous incidents.

Surprisingly, this incident also happened in Oregon (Medford). There is some bad mojo in that state. (Or some maintenance workers strung out on some heavy drugs.) This one could be related to the thin outer skin on the 737's, or it could just be loose bolts again.

United Airlines flight discovered to be missing external panel after landing safely in Oregon

 

This is the most amazing survival story for me.

Juliane Koepcke - Wikipedia.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/01/united-asks-pilots-to-take-unpaid-time-off-citing-boeing-delays.html

 

What a mess. Boeing is the definition of too big to fail. What to do? I'm guessing airlines contracts with Boeing don't have language to cover such things.

Boeing knows in the end that tax payers (and customers) will pay for this, but it sure isn't helping their stick price.

 

my daughter was on 1 month old JetBlue Airbus Saturday from London to JFK and they had to shut down an engine and had to turn around and return to Shannon Ireland on one engine. of course, it was built in Alabama...

Why Shannon instead of Dublin...believe it or not, the plane is not capable of dumping fuel so they had to land heavy with almost full tanks. JB doesn't even have a terminal in Shannon

JetBlue Airbus A321neo Diverts To Shannon After Engine Compressor Stall (simpleflying.com)

Interestingly, N2180J is a brand-new A321neo – delivered to JetBlue on March 14th from Airbus’ facility in Mobile Alabama, according to ch-aviation.

 

quickly checks flights....
got several with united before end of year

 

An engine fire on a 737 stops a Southwest flight from Lubbock to Los Angeles. When it rains, it pours.

Southwest Airlines delays departure of Boeing 737 due to engine fire

 

This is becoming silly.
First, the engines aren’t even made by Boeing, they are made by CFM for 800’s I think. And second, engine fires aren’t that an uncommon occurrence. American Airlines had two in a week last year and it didn’t even make the news.
It’s just piling on for clicks at this point.

 

Not trying to sound fatalistic, but when do we wake up to the news that one of these planes goes down and takes lives with it? Get your shit together airline industry!

 

At least the flight attendant didn't hit the pilot ejection switch next to the chair forward switch. That would have been bad.

 

One other point on this. I have a friend who is a SW pilot, who I was talking to today, and jokingly said “guess that wasn’t your plane”. His response was “no, but this happens about once a month.”. And that’s just on SW. It’s a nothing story.