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Extremely similar to Southwest flight 1380 which killed a person in the US after they were partially sucked out of a broken window from an engine failure. http
by flutas 2mo ago
Extremely similar to Southwest flight 1380 which killed a person in the US after they were partially sucked out of a broken window from an engine failure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1380 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1380
- w4der 2mo agoAnd both were Boeing 737s ... (albeit different variants)
- insane_dreamer 2mo agoThe Alaska Airlines flight that had a door fall off was also a Boeing 737
- einsteinx2 2mo agoI was going to reply that I thought the Boeing 737 was also hands down the most popular commercial airplane model in current use, so of course it would have more high profile issues. Then I did a quick web search and apparently the Airbus A320 is actually more popular since 2025, otherwise they’re fairly close to even. Yet these things only seem to happen to Boeing. So yeah, never mind, fair game to blame Boeing actually.
- bombcar 2mo agoThis would all be solved if the engines were out in front of the plane like podracers.
- burnt-resistor 2mo agoThat wouldn't work because the Cg would be too far forward and the mechanical moment of pylons would be far too great. What needs to happen is proper redesign of the CFM56-7B engine cowl to contain fan, LP, and HP failures.
- burnt-resistor 2mo agoThe CFM56 cowl redesign to prevent fan blade off uncontained failure is still unfixed. The FAA gave Boeing/CFM an unreasonable amount of time (July 31, 2028) to address the issue. This is similar to the bungled handling of MCAS.