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Community for those focused on sustainable travel. Our society's current levels of energy intensive and frequent travel are not compatible with life on a finite planet. We advocate for long-term slow travel to see the world, and low energy local travel to deeply experience your community. Green washing free zone.

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Screwdrivers Now Permitted On Boeing Flights, To Allow Passengers To Help With Maintenance (theshovel.com.au)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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(This is good news for people who trust Boeing more than medical workers. You can bring your own screwdriver.)

The serious narrative is shocking:

A Boeing mechanic failed to tighten the bolts on a door-size "cabin plug" that blew out on an Alaska Air 737Max flight. The aircraft had cabin pressure warnings onboard for some time, so instead of investigating/fixing, the airline simply 'restricted' the plane from 'long flights over water' so it could land quickly. No joke.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

so instead of investigating/fixing, the airline simply ‘restricted’ the plane from ‘long flights over water’ so it could land quickly

To be fair this did technically work

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

To my knowledge the problem with the pressurization system was unrelated, and not critical enough to have been a danger to the aircraft.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

oh I assumed it lost pressure because the door that fell off was loose to begin with and leaky

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

No, it should have gone immediately once it got far enough along the track that the seals failed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I heard the reason no one got sucked through the opening was because everyone happened to be wearing their seat belts. Technically, people are permitted to remove their seat belts to use the toilet, IIUC. So the timing of the door blowing off was critical to this policy “technically working”.

My problem is this: you have an anomaly of losing pressure in a safety critical operation. It could be any number of things that would cause that, from minor to serious. Considering lives are at stake, don’t we want someone to get to the bottom of it before risking people’s safety?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Also the seats next to the door plug weren't occupied

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago