Aviation Thread

A Delta flight from JFK to Los Angeles on Saturday made an unscheduled landing in Utah due to technical difficulties — only to have an air slide accidentally deploy inside the plane once it was on the ground.

A crew member was hit unexpectedly by the “exploding” air slide and taken to the hospital.

https://nypost.com/2023/06/10/delta...anes-slide-deploys-injuring-crew-member/

Geez , ...did u see that short black & white footage of the guy getting sucked into (I'm assuming it's a fighter jet) side fuselage intake?...devastating.

Delta passengers fall sick while waiting on Vegas tarmac in triple-digit temperatures

https://abcnews.go.com/US/delta-passengers-fall-sick-waiting-vegas-tarmac-triple/story?id=101497953

What an INSANE experience. First we were delayed because you did not have a flight attendant. Then we finally board and sit for almost 3 hours on a hot plane in 111 degree weather. Now we are heading back to the gate cause people are passing out.

https://twitter.com/Kristaanngarvin/status/1681091654978277376

My old man was a pilot for Pan Am, I grew up on airplanes.

Another PILOT has died inflight!!

Aug.16, 2023 - Quatar Airways QR579 (DEL-DOH) Delhi to Doha, Quatar diverted to Dubai as 51 year old senior pilot collapsed inflight and died!

2nd pilot death & 4th collapse THIS WEEK!

Aug.14, 2023 - LATAM Flight LA505 (MIA-SCL) pilot died

Aug.9, 2023 - United Airlines UAL1309 (SRQ-EWR) pilot collapsed

Aug.7, 2023 - TigerAIR Flight IT237 (CTS-TPE) pilot collapsed

https://twitter.com/MakisMD/status/1691882670505210323

https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/latam-airlines-pilot-emergency-landing-panama

The Mexico City International Airport acknowledged in a statement Friday that a man had opened an emergency exit and walked out on a wing of a plane that was parked and waiting for takeoff Thursday.

The airport said the man had been turned over to police.

But dozens of fellow passengers signed a written copy of a statement saying the airline made them wait for four hours without ventilation or water while the flight was delayed. According to photos of the statement posted online, fellow passengers said he acted “to protect everyone, with the support of everyone.”

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-a...bellion-91e3411716e22bfd8778905860a7850f

He was a wing man

Four bolts designed to prevent the door plug from falling off the Boeing 737 Max 9 plane were missing before the plug blew off during an Alaska Airlines flight last month, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report of the incident released on Tuesday.

Boeing records reviewed by the NTSB showed that damaged rivets on the edge frame forward of the plug were replaced by Spirit AeroSystems employees at Boeing's factory in Renton, Washington, on Sept. 19, 2023, according to the agency's report. Boeing had to open the plug by removing the two vertical movement arrestor bolts and two upper guide track bolts for the rivets to be replaced, but photo documentation obtained from Boeing showed evidence that the plug was closed with no bolts in three visible locations, according to the NTSB report.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/alaska-airlines-door-plug-ntsb-report/story?id=106992184

BREAKING United 777-300ER EMERGENCY LANDING at Sydney Airport March 11, 2024

A sleep-deprived new father of twins and his co-pilot are accused allowing their airliner with 159 people on board to veer off course after they both fell asleep for nearly 30 minutes in the cockpit midair, officials in Indonesia said.

FBI tells Alaska Airlines passengers they may be ‘victim of a crime’

The US DOJ opened a probe into the incident, and Boeing, in February of this year. That investigation carries the potential to upend a controversial deferred prosecution agreement that Boeing reached with the Justice Department in January of 2021.

The deferred prosecution agreement could have ended the threat of Boeing facing criminal liability for those earlier fraud charges. But the Alaska Air incident came just days before a three-year probation-like period was due to end, so the criminal probe could expose Boeing to charges not just for the Alaska Air incident but also the earlier allegations of criminal wrongdoing.

Boeing declined to comment.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/22/business/alaska-airlines-fbi-passengers-crime-victims/index.html

Boeing CEO to step down in broad management shake-up as 737 Max crisis weighs on aerospace giant

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/25/boeing-ceo-board-chair-commercial-head-out-737-max-crisis.html

CEO Dave Calhoun will step down at the end of 2024 in part of a broad management shake-up for the embattled aerospace giant.

Larry Kellner, chairman of the board, is also resigning and will not stand for reelection at Boeing’s annual meeting in May. He will be succeeded as chair by Steve Mollenkopf, who has been a Boeing director since 2020 and is a former CEO of Qualcomm. Mollenkopf will lead the board in picking a new CEO, Boeing said.

And Stan Deal, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, is leaving the company effective immediately. Moving into his job is Stephanie Pope, who recently became Boeing’s chief operating officer after previously running Boeing Global Services.

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Golden Parachutes for all of the C-Suite ! ! !

Boeing’s Downfall - Before the McDonnell Douglas Merger

Boeing faces new FAA probe over 787 Dreamliner inspections, falsified records

https://www.france24.com/en/america...dreamliner-inspections-falsified-records

"The FAA is investigating whether Boeing completed the inspections and whether company employees may have falsified aircraft records," the agency said. "At the same time, Boeing is reinspecting all 787 airplanes still within the production system and must also create a plan to address the in-service fleet."

The issue surfaced after a Boeing employee observed an "irregularity" and raised the issue with a supervisor who elevated it further.

"We quickly reviewed the matter and learned that several people had been violating company policies by not performing a required test, but recording the work as having been completed," Scott Stocker, head of the Boeing 787 program, said in an email to staff.

"We promptly informed our regulator about what we learned and are taking swift and serious corrective action with multiple teammates," said Stocker, adding that engineering staff determined that the issues does not pose an immediate safety of flight risk.