Multiple news articles are reporting that this aircraft had its post-production certification only two months ago. For a problem of this magnitude to develop in such a short time is very disconcerting.
@Australis13@HowRu68 “Fuselage” is misleading here. Reports are that it was an exit door plug, which are installed as “blanking plates” in extra exit rows that aren’t used in particular seat configurations.
That is better than a fuselage failure, but still disturbing if you’re correct - surely there are checks for exit doir plugs since it would be at higher risk of failure.
Multiple news articles are reporting that this aircraft had its post-production certification only two months ago. For a problem of this magnitude to develop in such a short time is very disconcerting.
Holy heck if this is true.
@Australis13 @HowRu68 “Fuselage” is misleading here. Reports are that it was an exit door plug, which are installed as “blanking plates” in extra exit rows that aren’t used in particular seat configurations.
This suggests it was improperly installed.
That is better than a fuselage failure, but still disturbing if you’re correct - surely there are checks for exit doir plugs since it would be at higher risk of failure.
@Australis13 @HowRu68 There certainly should be.
Whether or not it was a plug, at the time of the incident this piece its role was basically that of a portion of fuselage.
@sndrtj Point being, it’s not like this is the fuselage failing. It’s a plug that wasn’t fixed in place properly.
This is the difference between “critical design flaw” and “someone fucked up putting it together”