Alaska Airlines flight forced to make emergency landing after window blows out in mid-air
Alaska Airlines flight forced to make emergency landing after window blows out in mid-air
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/
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Capitalism views maintenance as an expense, not revenue-in.
Aircraft maintenance is heavily regulated. This was a new plane, and the result of the failure is that all planes of that type have been grounded.
There are plenty of issues caused by corporate greed and lack of regulation as it is, but this isn't one of them.
The story of the 737 MAX is corporate greed. It's just by Boening, not the operator. However, the operators heavily influence the choices by Boening.
Actually, you make my point. Without regulation that was outside the hands of capitalists, they wouldn't have been grounded. Capitalism only cares about profits. Thank hell, that there are a few regulations left, right?
You know what, you're right. 'Le capitalism bad'. Now what? What the fuck do you propose? Get us to the revolution man. C'mon. Let's go. I'm ready! Let's goooooo. Tell us what to do next! I'm listening.
Edit: wait, so I'm asking what we should do about it and I'm getting downvotes? I thought capitalism was bad. Shouldn't we DO something about it? Or is it just performative for you guys? Pedal to the metal. Put up or shut up. Let's do this. I'm ready..let's GOOOO
Lots of things, you never privatize critical services like water, electricity, and healthcare. And if you do privatize it, you do so with strong regulation.
You focus on worker co-ops and never allow a company to have less than 50% of the board of the directors made up of workers (see Germany), this helps prevent short-term vulture capitalism.
You never allow private business to capture the legislature and literally hand laws to the congress they own who blindly passes it, the main way things happen in a dystopia like Murica.
Just realized I'm likely feeding the troll.... you can do some reading, I've given you a starting place. You can Google democratic socialism as well, which might help as a general starting point.
The reason nobody is engaging with you is because you’re clearly completely brainrotted and arguing in bad faith.
You want a fucking answer, shithead? It starts with the dictatorship of the proletariat, a true democracy. That starts with strong worker unions. That starts with universal healthcare untied to employment. Better education for the people in a world shifting largely to trades and higher education instead of menial data entry or service jobs. Elimination of FPTP elections.
All things that can be easily accomplished via legislation, TODAY without total societal upheaval.
Now are you gonna help achieve that by attending city council meetings and voting for leftist parties so they can get increasing levels of federal election funding?
No, you’re not. You’re just going to reply with some bullshit degenerate rant that makes no logical sense about how you love fascism and having a foot in your mouth.
So shut the fuck up, shove it up your ass, and go fuck yourself you fucking piece of shit.
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)
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.
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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.
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
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.
Unexpected in-flight ventilation.
It's not a window, look at the photo in the article.
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.