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SW 737 with a hole in fuselage lands at MCAS Yuma

Wonder if any of the pax are fans.

The safety lecture continues. "In the unlikely event . ." This is a very suspect phrase, especially coming as it does from an industry that is willing to lie about arrival and departure times. "In the unlikely event of a sudden change in cabin pressure"--ROOF FLIES OFF! " . . An oxygen mask will drop down in front of you. Place the mask over your face and breathe normally." Well, I have no problem with that. I always breathe normally when I'm in a 600 mile an hour uncontrolled vertical dive. I also shit normally.

They tell you to adjust YOUR oxygen mask before helping your child with his. I did not need to be told that. In fact, I'm probably going to be too busy screaming to help him at all. This will be a good time for him to learn self-reliance. If he can program his fucking VCR, he could goddamn, jolly-well learn to adjust an oxygen mask. Fairly simple thing, just a little rubber band in the back is all it is. Not nearly as complicated as say, for instance, a seatbelt.
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I saw it land. I was wondering what the hell it was doing here, but didn't think much about it. There's a Boeing test area here and I just figured it had something to do with that.

The landing looked uneventful for what it's worth.
 
The SW 737-300 involved in this incident is probably 15+ yrs old and has likely had some 20,000 pressurization cycles on its airframe. There must be some real maintenance nightmares involved in monitoring the condition of the airframe in a/c this old that fly 4+ routes per day. An a/c of the same age involved in long-range routes (747,777, 767) would probably have less than one-third the number of pressurization cycles of a 737. JMHO.
 
HAL Pilot said:
Not even close. BTW, the Aloha FO is now at Hawaiian and was my sim partner in 767 initial training. She has took her experience and has done wonders in the field of PTSD in aviation.
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I understand that. My only point, although not too well made, was that the failure was in the same area if I interpret the descriptions correctly. If not, my mistake.

From the pictures of the Aloha accident, that crew did a magnificent job saving the aircraft.
 
Flugelman said:
I understand that. My only point, although not too well made, was that the failure was in the same area if I interpret the descriptions correctly. If not, my mistake.

From the pictures of the Aloha accident, that crew did a magnificent job saving the aircraft.
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As I understand it, Aloha 243 was one of the critical cases (if not THE case) that brought metal fatigue (and corrosion.... oh, all those corrosion gripes!) to the forefront of aviation safety, and like you said.... it was handled EXPERTLY. The only person who died was a flight attendant who happened to be moving about the cabin when the catastrophic failure occurred. The crew made the appropriate actions (up front, and in the cabin calming the passengers and ensuring their security).
 
Actually, what brought metal fatigue to the fore front of commercial aviation was the de Havilland Comet in the 1950s.

Recently Southwest got spanked by the FAA for not documenting proper fuselage inspections and, as I recall, repairs of fatigue cracks. It is hard to keep the FAA happy in the documentation area. My airline got a huge fine for some incredibly minor issues that came out of conflicting guidance from two different FAA maintenance inspectors at two different bases. Given that this aircraft was one of just a few dozen that hadn't come under the extra scrutiny required by the settlement agreement with the FAA, maybe the feds were on to something this time.

Something to consider that I bet is news to most you guys, the oxygen systems have been removed from the lavatories in ALL commercial aircraft. It happened just a few weeks ago, ordered by the FAA in an emergency airworthiness directive. It required immediate removal of these systems. Now the flight attendants have to check the lavs after a decompression and bring a portable O2 bottle with them. This is the first decompression since the removal of these systems. I wonder if the FAs remembered to check the lavs. Obviously, no one died in a lav, maybe no one was in a lav. But did they check? So here is the lesson, don't be taking a leisurely recreational dump in an aircraft lavatory at cruise altitudes.
 
What was the reasoning behind removing the mask from the lav?

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KBayDog said:
"The airlines are trying to kill you!"
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gotta_fly, you didn't know this?

Between this and the epidemics that they are spreading with their recycled cabin air and "chemtrails" the airlines will kill all of us off in a decade!!!!!

People are soo fucking stupid.
 
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