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01-06-2024, 02:51 PM | #1 |
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Alaska 1282 - Amazing job by the pilot
Listening to this recording literally brought tears to my eyes. I know that pilots and ATC are trained on what to do in an emergency, but when it's happening real time, the human factor kicks in. In this case, she (the pilot) was so clear on her communication. You can hear the concern in her voice, but she focused on communicating clearly and precisely with ATC. What a job!
I'm so glad that plane landed safely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFNQZPJSm4M |
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01-06-2024, 03:21 PM | #4 |
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Any 737 crew here? Is that a press or an unpress door. I thought all airlines used Plug or UNpress doors to prevent the door from opening in flight.
Had one time where a C5 troop door number 4 fell into the plane because a someone must have pulled the handle while pressurized and upon decent the pressure dropped and the door fell in. |
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01-06-2024, 09:26 PM | #6 |
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Two bits of luck there.
1. No one was sitting in that seat. 2. They were still climbing from takeoff, so everyone was still buckled in. That's not to take anything away from the skill and professional demeanor of the pilot and crew. They handled that nightmare flawlessly, it seems.
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Just read some more it's a plugged door so it opens inward but must have had a structural failure around the plug.
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I'm a Guppy Driver (737) from way back and have flown the -300,-500, -700, -800, -900, -900ER, Max8 and Max 9 as a First Officer, Captain and Line Check Airman (Instructor/Evaluator) and have at least 8,000 hours (probably a lot more) in type.
I'm "on the beach" until this fall due to a medical glitch, but here's my 0.02. 1. The crew did a nice job. This is pretty much a "you're going to see this in the simulator at least once every couple of years" type of emergency. There's actually an Immediate Action Checklist for this (the military calls it a Boldface) that covers this sort of rapid decompression emergency that is usually printed on a hard card that's in a little pocket on the glare shield. 2. Basically, ( you do this part from memory) you get your oxygen mask on, make sure you can talk to the other pilot, and flip the seat belt sign on. After that, you grab the checklist and follow the steps-- pretty much you set/confirm the pressurization controls to try to repressurize (it never works, but you always try), then you start a rapid descent IF you don't suspect structural failure-- if so, you still go down but you don't speed up (the theory is that the jet's flying ok at the speed you're at, so let's not go faster or deploy speed brakes as you don't know what'll happen if you stress the airframe). This is what the crew did-- they didn't go smoking down and they were only at 16k anyway-- it was a good choice since the plug departing the aircraft could have taken out a good chunk of the horizontal stabilizer (the tail). Important Safety Tip: Make sure there aren't any Big Rocks below you on the descent. Then you declare an emergency and start doing all of those pilot things that you're trained to do-- FLY THE JET, run about a dozen checklists, prep the Flight Attendants for an emergency landing and/or evacuation, tell ATC what you want to do (declaring an Emergency pretty much means that you've just become the most important thing in the world to the ATC controllers and they'll give you anything that you want) and where you want to go, and coordinate with the other pilot to finish required checklists, get the jet pointed in the right direction/altitude, and prep for an approach and landing. If you get a few seconds, you tell the Company via text (ACARS) what's going on and where you're going. I teach it as "Inside - Outside - Backside"-- deal with/manage the problem with the jet, run the appropriate checklists, brief the Flight Attendants and passengers (all Inside), tell ATC and Company what's going on (Outside), and make sure you've completed your checklists for the emergency, emergency return, overweight landing, and normal descent/approach checklists, etc. and done everything you can think of to manage the problem and land safely (Backside). 3. Usually (in the air at least) one of the pilots will be flying the jet and one will be working the radios-- you usually take turns on the narrobody's-- i.e. in a four-leg day, the Captain will fly twice and the First Officer will fly twice while the other person works the radios and talks to ATC. In this scenario, I'd probably make the landing as the Captain. Fun fact-- the voices you hear from the radio on the ground? That's the First Officer talking-- the Captain usually doesn't talk to ATC as he's busy steering the jet around the ramp/taxiways. 4. They got lucky. Popping a door at 16,000' isn't fun, but you can still breathe, your passengers can still breathe, and you can get down to a safe altitude pretty quickly. Pop the door at FL410 and it's a whole different ballgame-- you'll have a Time of Useful Consciousness of about 15-20 seconds (which is why pilots are ALWAYS trained to put on the mask if there's an unexpected depressurization) and a whole lot of Bad can happen to your passengers on the way down at sixty below zero. 5. This wasn't a door, but a plug. If you look at a picture of a -900 (it doesn't matter if it's a -900, -900ER or Max9-- they're all built the same) on US planes, you'll see what looks like a door cutout about 15 or so rows from the "real" rear exits (basically between the tail and the wing). It's literally a plug BOLTED in-- you can't even tell where it is when you're inside the airplane. It's really there in case an operator wants to run high-density seating. The FAA limits the number of passengers a jet can carry based on emergency exits and ability to exit the aircraft quickly. So, if Carrier X decides to squeeze more seats in the jet, the two plugs are removed and emergency doors are installed. 6. Judging from what United and Alaska have found on their tech inspections, this is going to be an installation/QA error-- NOTHING that UA or Alaska did or could have done would have affected this-- it was a screw-up from the factory. Those plugs aren't even accessible unless you take a good part of the inside apart-- it's about an eight hour job. They probably would have been checked during a Heavy Maintenance Visit, but the jets were so new they hadn't hit the required time threshold for something like that yet. Just my thoughts from someone who's been to this party a few times. R.
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Two hours on a loop. The Feds are pushing for 24 hours.
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I agree with questioning how that happened. It makes zero sense. This whole event lasted less than 30 minutes and that claim is obviously not entirely true, because the recording made it onto YouTube.
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More problems. Boeing is about as reliable as Stellantis nowadays.
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As far as the length of recording, it depends on how the individual jet is configured (don't ask me why-- jets from the same series can have different recording lengths). Some are 30 minutes, a few are 25 hours. This one was 120 minutes and they're automatically overwritten. R.
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