An Alaska Airlines flight traveling from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California, had to make an emergency landing Friday night after a portion of the aircraft blew out mid-air.
  • Troy
    5•1 year ago

    Well, the fact that it was still able to make the landing is remarkable. This isn’t the Comet after all…

    • @theyoyomaster@lemmy.world
      5•1 year ago

      Very different modes of failure. Metal fatigue ripping apart fault lines in structural metal is very different from an emergency exit door popping out.

    • @BURN@lemmy.world
      12•1 year ago

      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.