An engine cover rips off a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737, forcing an emergency landing
An engine cover rips off a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737, forcing an emergency landing
A panel covering one of the engines on a Boeing 737 operated by Southwest Airlines tore away mid-flight on Sunday, forcing the plane to turn around.
Remember frequency illusion is a very real thing.
Last week an Airbus had a brake failure on approach in Seattle. Did you hear about that?
https://simpleflying.com/delta-air-lines-airbus-a220-suffers-brakes-failure/
Remember you're primed to see things that match your biases.
This is exactly it. I'm not making excuses for these companies messing up and being negligent I think it's fine they get a spotlight on these things. However it's just like the railroad derailings that were hot recently. After it was news we were seeing huge headlines of derailings like every single day and not anymore. I have family members as engineers in the railroad and I know that there's derailings literally all the time but it was only reported so much because it was the new hot topic for a while. Again not defending the railroads in the cases where huge disasters were also caused due to negligence fuck them for that too
It's a thing until it becomes so frequent that it's just background noise, which is what happened with car crashes. I took specific action to make my next big trip safer, and from everything I could find the most effective way to do that was trading out the drive to the airport for a bus ride.
Did that primary buffer panel just fell off my gorram plane for no apparent reason?
Don't worry cap'n everything's shiny - honest!
Oh Kaylee... how I love that little ray of sunshine.
The plane is 7 years old. This isn’t a Boeing issue, this is a Southwest maintenance issue. Engine cowlings are regularly removed for maintenance. If a latch or latches aren’t properly secured or suffer from excessive wear then this is the outcome. I get the disdain for Boeing, but it should be based on issues of their negligence, not the negligence of their customers.
Arguably. Reading the comments on avhearld, the cowling latches to each other rather than to the frame and the latches themselves are very low and easy to miss. Airbus has tried to eliminate this potential oversight, whereas Boeing has not. So yes, potentially missed non walk around, but also a possible systematic design failure.
To everyone saying it is not an Boeing issue:
We simply don't know that,yet. It could be a maintenance issue with whoever Southwest contracted. From someone fucking up closing the engine cover properly to the use of counterfeit parts (actually a larger issue than most people know - it has brought down airliners in the past).
It also could be an issue with actual Boeing certified spare parts or maintenance protocols- Something breakers earlier than expected,some spare parts are not as good as expected, the procedure is overly complicated,etc.
And of course it still could be an issue with actual Boeing works - something is built badly and now, after thousands of hours finally kicks the bucket - there have been cases where repairs brought down airliners decades after them being down (badly),the same is absolutely possible for engineering or assembly mishaps. If that is the case Boeing would be really fucked.
Anyways: There is a reason NTSB reports take months to years until they are finished. It is ridiculous how many people "know" what the reason for this was.
Flew out on an Airbus the entire way to Canada. Unfortunately our trip back is on a Boeing 737. Ooof
From what I understand only the 737 MAX is affected. Older 737 models should be fine.
Thanks for this
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Boeing 737 operated by Southwest Airlines had to turn around mid-flight after an engine cover ripped off on Sunday.
Southwest Airlines told Business Insider in a statement that Flight 3695 returned to the Denver International Airport and landed safely after experiencing a "mechanical issue."
In January, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after a section of an Alaska Airlines fuselage — a plug over what was previously a door — ripped away mid-flight.
The FAA said in a statement at the time that each plane would have to undergo an eight-hour safety inspection before it's allowed to carry passengers again.
Boeing Chairman Steve Mollenkopf has reached out directly to several airlines following the company's recent struggles, Bloomberg reported.
Mollenkpf's move came after Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary said that Boeing showed a "lack of attention to detail."
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Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary said that Boeing showed a “lack of attention to detail.”
You know... Ryanair throwing shade around about lack of anything is pretty hilarious.
Don't they have a really good safety record? They're cheap, and the user experience isn't great, but I never heard anything about aafty problems.
That doesn’t look like a serious safety problem to me- but I’m not an expert
Do you work for Boeing?
It's almost delicious.