Southwest Flight Diverted With A Cracked Window!
May 2, 2018, 12:15 pm
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Heavy maintenance being done outside of the US is not uncommon for american carriers. It's ignorant to think WN is the only one offshoring some of their maintenance. A few examples:
-AA spent $100m on a maintenance center in Brazil, also utilizes China and Mexico.
-JetBlue goes to El Salvador
-United goes to HK/Singapore for widebodies
-AA spent $100m on a maintenance center in Brazil, also utilizes China and Mexico.
-JetBlue goes to El Salvador
-United goes to HK/Singapore for widebodies
May 2, 2018, 12:17 pm
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May 2, 2018, 12:20 pm
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May 2, 2018, 12:21 pm
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Or maybe: "No 'news' organization paid any attention to what's probably not all that uncommon" until after what happened last week. I'd be willing to bet $$ that if 1380 hadn't happened nobody outside of those aboard and WN management would have heard of this incident.
Yeah, OP, stay off WN- they're *crashtastic*!!!!111!!!!
Yeah, OP, stay off WN- they're *crashtastic*!!!!111!!!!
May 2, 2018, 12:26 pm
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Cockpit windows are more common and susceptible because of the nature of the forces on the window, bird strikes, hail, and other airborne objects generally hit from the front and not the side.
The side window could be cracked by foreign debris or simply the fuselage working on pressure changes. That would also cause metal fatigue. Both items are important to be investigated as it is clear this is not supposed to happen at all. Looking at the picture it could be impact. It of course that is speculation at this point. If it is indeed impact it is vital to understand what that side force impact was. Let’s hope it is not another part of the aircraft that came off in flight.
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May 2, 2018, 12:29 pm
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May 2, 2018, 1:24 pm
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In the most raw form, sure, but the scenarios are completely different.. There's a big difference between a pax window cracking just all on its own, and a pax window cracking because a big chunk of departing engine cowling hit it.
People seldom realize this, but oddball stuff happens every day in the airline world. Flight occasionally blow a tire on takeoff or landing. Flights abort takeoffs, or go missed approach when landing. Earlier than normal landings are made for pax misconduct issues. None of the previous items are necessarily true emergencies, and I see the media reported that they made an emergency landing (even though no emergency was declared by the crew)..
After a major event (like 1380), the media's tendency is to report on anything remotely out of the ordinary, with a link (justified or not) to the previous major event.
People seldom realize this, but oddball stuff happens every day in the airline world. Flight occasionally blow a tire on takeoff or landing. Flights abort takeoffs, or go missed approach when landing. Earlier than normal landings are made for pax misconduct issues. None of the previous items are necessarily true emergencies, and I see the media reported that they made an emergency landing (even though no emergency was declared by the crew)..
After a major event (like 1380), the media's tendency is to report on anything remotely out of the ordinary, with a link (justified or not) to the previous major event.
May 2, 2018, 1:42 pm
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“My sense is that it's very rare for a cabin window to have that issue,” said Richard Healing, former National Transportation Safety Board member who now leads Air Safety Engineering.
May 2, 2018, 1:44 pm
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Heavy maintenance being done outside of the US is not uncommon for american carriers. It's ignorant to think WN is the only one offshoring some of their maintenance. A few examples:
-AA spent $100m on a maintenance center in Brazil, also utilizes China and Mexico.
-JetBlue goes to El Salvador
-United goes to HK/Singapore for widebodies
-AA spent $100m on a maintenance center in Brazil, also utilizes China and Mexico.
-JetBlue goes to El Salvador
-United goes to HK/Singapore for widebodies
May 2, 2018, 4:07 pm
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