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Yes it's a problem with chrome or removal of TC finish, usually with polished props.

I read them all too, one was around my instructor’s flight school. One instructor had to have both of them lean all the way forward to recover in another. It was more than the fact it spun like a plane should, it was that a standard recovery didn’t always meet TC standards. Hence, Sweden’s...

Built better than a Skipper? The wing design was modified from the original engineering drawings on the line and so it deformed in a spin, due to the rib spacing. From an article at the time: "The manufacturing part had to do with changes that Piper had made, not to the design but to the...

I still wonder, other comments here to the contrary, if the door was being no longer sealed properly, which lead to the pressurization issues that were noted before the failure of the plug. It just seems too obvious that this plane had more than one issue noted beforehand with keeping...

Doesn’t anyone do a search for previous and many discussions on this very subject?

KIRO 7 Seattle reports 5 people still critical. Contractor has had 4 violations over the past 5 years for failure to provide safety protections.

What a journey for that team!

And the merger with McDonald-Douglas sinks to an even lower low. The Boeing was the final hands on the door before delivery was an above the fold headline in today’s Seattle Times. Then the aftermarket Wi-Fi… better call Mr. Monk and Natalie.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/n-w-t-coroner-s-office-confirms-deaths-in-passenger-plane-crash-1.6738742

Auburn isn’t quite the safest place to have to force land. A bit like climbing out of 33 at Harvey. He did a good job and credits a 4 point harness for his survival. If you don’t have a shoulder harness…get one.

“grapevine also says 8 skydivers exited at once, which led to streamering the balloon after the sudden uprise collapsed the top of the envelope. The pilot was said to be very safety conscious and normally never allowed more than 4 skydivers or 6 lighter ones to exit simultaneously”. This...

Ron, looking at the design it’s hard not to think that a cotter pin would have worked just as well. Of course now I think a self-locking nut followed by a castle nut and cotter!

The balloon is not a A-160. Internet is wrong. Kubíček BB85Z 300 is now reported. The balloon was a 16 passenger model. They have to set up a descent before the skydivers depart to avoid collapsing the envelope when the balloon goes up when the weight departs. Too much or too little is...

So how does the bolts not being there square up with both United and AS seeing loose hardware?

I fly my non-engine driven no electrical Aeronca all the time in the Mode C veil. The logic fails at that point and is dangerous. Eyeballs out and always. Isn’t there a better less compacted place to fling the blind spots around?

Sounds like the maintenance folks chased the altitude pressurization control unit for issues rather than asking what was causing it to report an error in the first place.

The outline from external view is not only a window. Airlines can adjust seating space. The plug is used if they aren’t high density configured and have no need for the exit.

Emergency exit opened, blew out - photo shows it wasn’t a window that departed the plane. Apparently airlines can put a plug door there if they don’t want the emergency exit. Wonder who checked it last?

Thank goodness it happened in Japan, where the population isn't so self-centered. I can only imagine a USA airline with people trying to get their luggage out of the overhead bins. . . Tragic.

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