A LATAM Boeing 787 had a pretty dramatic flight today, leading to mid-flight injuries. What’s surprising is what reportedly caused this incident.
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Did you have your seat belt buckled???
Except for the guy who happen to be in the John, seat belts are amazing safety devices which prevent injury, upset, distress, and head trauma.
As per the preflight briefing, "Only you can bucket your own belt!!"
Sounds like the speed breaks must have deployed, can’t think of anything else that would cause such a dramatic drop in altitude other than them hitting CAT or they were in a nose dive but what is being reported is the aircraft remained level in decent.
Boeing better hope that they can find fault with Latam fairly quickly. They don't need another problem with another one of their aircraft.
@Ben,
The FlightRadar24 data show missing time coverage between 1:32 AM UTC to 1:56 AM UTC, and then again 2:27 AM UTC to 2:40 AM UTC. Additionally, the sampling rate for these ADS-C based data link is only 2 data points per minute. A clear air turbulence based altitude deviation would have been recovered possibly between the 2 data points 30 seconds apart.
Another Boeing plane with a technical problem? Oh my, please don't tell me it isn't so!
There are also photos taken from the flight circulating around on news outlets - pretty insane that the roof essentially caved in, people would have had to have been thrown at force. Will the ATSB investigate?
Was supposed to take Latam 787 from Auckland to Sydney back in October. We waited 5 hours before the crew told us they couldn’t get the jet engines to turn on (there were mechanics with the jet covers open frantically working the whole time). The plane was towed away from the gate and we all had to be rescheduled (which was a chaotic mess itself).
I urge US airlines to consider looking at the Chinese built CS919-Chinese quality can't be any worse than Boeing's quality at this point.
Consider the 10s of 1000s of flights a day as you write from your basement.
The same applies person that assumes all the staff are the same because of one bad apple.
this is all over global media but it is way too soon to be jumping to any conclusions about the cause
Boeing has lots of experience blaming customers for its manufacturing and technology issues.
Surprised that "Aussie" isn't mocking Boeing without even knowing exact backgrounds yet
There was an advice about wing defrosts malfunctioning in that airplane model last week. I don't know if that may have anything to do, but there is a reason why many Boeing employees who built the 787 are reluctant to fly in them.
I'm not sure I follow your logic about how this is related to politics.
This is about Boeing building airplanes with quality similar to Ford / GM / Chrysler just like how Airbus builds airplanes with quality similar to Audi / Mercedes / BMW.
Wow. Ccp is on this conversation. That's a hard no to manufactured and "design" in China based on stolen ip from the west.
BBC News
John Barnett had worked for Boeing for 32 years, until his retirement in 2017.
In the days before his death, he had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company.
Boeing said it was saddened to hear of Mr Barnett's passing. The Charleston County coroner confirmed his death to the BBC on Monday.
It said the 62-year-old had died from a "self-inflicted" wound on 9 March and police were investigating.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703
With both the flight data recorder and the CVR available, it shouldn’t take too long to figure out what happened. I’d be looking at the pilots actions or maybe their reactions.
Those slats you see when a plane lands on the wings are part of the speed break system, deployed mid air to their full extent will cause the aircraft to immediately fall as they loose their aerodynamic capability.
Nope, Australia doesn't have jurisdiction so it won't be the ATSB. The incident was in international airspace so Chile will conduct the investigation. The NZ Transport Accident Investigation Commission has said it will assist, and has reportedly seized the flight recorders.