Originally Posted by
PUCCI GALORE
I will await the findings of the NTSB with interest. My thoughts are that several miracles took place that night.
- No one got sucked out of the aircraft
- That door did not hit or damage any of the controls
- No one was killed in the air or on the ground.
- That no one was injured or killed by that door falling to earth- it that been over an urban centre can you imagine what might have happened.
- That they have found one of the IPhones
- The aircraft landed safely in spite of all this
What happens to the Max 9 fleets as a whole can be speculated on until the cows come home. The above happened - and it could have been a whole lot worse.
Some of those things are obvious and not really "miracles". A door blown out is not an immediate or serious danger unless it hits and damages something. Planes with far worse structural damage have landed safely before. Entire rows of seats had been detached and large sections of the fuselage were completely gone, yet the planes landed safely as long as the pilots were OK and no damage to control surfaces/electric/hydraulics. You could potentially take off and land with all cabin doors missing and it would be uneventful. Also, since the plug door was in the aft section and was blown with some force, it would be less likely to hit any part of the plane. I wouldn't term anything miraculous there.
Yes, the door did not injure anyone on the ground (but it wasn't over a densely populated area) and the iPhone did not break is indeed miraculous.