Oh Alaska/Boeing

[arkflyr]

I don't know if you're referring to Chris Brady's channel specifically or the YouTube experts crowd in general. FWIW I find Chris' videos consistently good, informative, and free of BS.

Unlike that blanco guy linked above (full disclosure, I haven't watched it because I get nauseous every time I hear or see him talk)

I was referring to his video specifically, first time I've ever seen any of his stuff and I liked that video for the above reasons. In my opinion there is way too much speculative look at me garbage that pops up like dandelions after a spring rain on there any time there is an accident.

 

[///AMG]

It's not "Engines turn or people swim" anymore?

Not only that, but it is also any twin that goes beyond 3 hrs from land

 

[azmedic]

Not only that, but it is also any twin that goes beyond 3 hrs from land

another figurehead who has no idea how them flyin’ machines work.


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[Cherokee_Cruiser]

If they want to go to Canadian rules about the CVR, where it is considered highly privileged information, and only 3 people hear the recording and no transcript is ever published (only a summary), maybe there's room to talk.

Otherwise, um, no.

Why?



When have you ever been offended by a written transcript after an accident?


Frankly, I’d rather read it and have other pilots read it so they know how things turned from normal to accident in a span of minutes.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

The idiots are out in true fashion.



“If you are afraid to take the airplane far from land, what is the reason for that? That has to be answered by Alaska Airlines,” said Steven Wallace, an air-safety consultant and commercial pilot who once headed accident investigations for the Federal Aviation Administration.
“




I’ve seen dozens of reasons for ETOPS NA - Deferral code.


This is hardly news.

 

[roundout]

The idiots are out in true fashion.



“If you are afraid to take the airplane far from land, what is the reason for that? That has to be answered by Alaska Airlines,” said Steven Wallace, an air-safety consultant and commercial pilot who once headed accident investigations for the Federal Aviation Administration.
“




I’ve seen dozens of reasons for ETOPS NA - Deferral code.


This is hardly news.

comments section gonna comments section

 

[CFI A&P]

I can neither confirm nor deny that a PNW airline found loose hardware...

Just being Captain obvious here, but isn’t loose hardware on a PNW carrier what got us into this?

 

[Autothrust Blue]

As head scratching as this whole thing is, how incredibly lucky are we, really? I mean it looks like at least dozens of aircraft were flying around with this issue, and we learn about it (so we can fix it) because one blows off below the flight levels and with nobody in the two affected seats? Lot to feel fortunate about here.

Luck is not a safety strategy.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

another figurehead who has no idea how them flyin’ machines work.


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She’s not Robert Sumwalt, who spent a career and life doing the aviation safety thing, but Jen Homendy is most assuredly NOT an idiot—and she’s also been a big advocate for fixing some of the worst parts of the FAA. And the Board does more than investigate just aviation stuff — she’s been very vocal about some real issues in other modes within their jurisdiction such as quote self driving cars unquote.

So if she tripped over ETOPS definitions a bit during a press conference, meh. I’ll live with it. She’s an advocate for my humanity, and yours too.

 

[Seggy]

Did Alaska training really omit the blowout panel of the cockpit door?

 

[sorrygottarunway]

yes, you will get a master caution and a doors annunciator cueing you to look at the overhead panel. Not sure if the plugged door is wired into that.

only if that segment of the master caution lights up well! (you know, this could have been in an EICAS!)

 

[Inverted]

Did Alaska training really omit the blowout panel of the cockpit door?

I have literally no idea that door does what it did, and had no idea that it was designed to do it. Not a single mention of it during training.

 

[Seggy]

I have literally no idea that door does what it did, and had no idea that it was designed to do it. Not a single mention of it during training.

Wow.

 

[Roger Roger]

I have literally no idea that door does what it did, and had no idea that it was designed to do it. Not a single mention of it during training.

I literally just went through initial ground. The blowout portion of the door is addressed in there somewhere, either one of the CBTs we all clicked through or in the cockpit security section of indoc I think. Pretty sure it’s not in systems, but the 3 weeks of ground was a blur so I could be wrong. But it’s definitely in there at least for new hires.

 

[Roger Roger]

only if that segment of the master caution lights up well! (you know, this could have been in an EICAS!)

RECALL………..Checked

 

[Inverted]

I literally just went through initial ground. The blowout portion of the door is addressed in there somewhere, either one of the CBTs we all clicked through or in the cockpit security section of indoc I think. Pretty sure it’s not in systems, but the 3 weeks of ground was a blur so I could be wrong. But it’s definitely in there at least for new hires.

It was a whirlwind for me too but talking to both CAs and FOs, there are a lot who were in complete darkness on this lol.

 

[Murdoughnut]

Normally I tell my friends I don't have the expertise to really answer a lot of questions about systems on such aircraft, but all be damned if I didn't get my high altitude endorsement in the 737 sim - look for me on CNN

 

[Roger Roger]

It was a whirlwind for me too but talking to both CAs and FOs, there are a lot who were in complete darkness on this lol.

Not to say anything negative about any particular training program, but if in theory the main focus of a ground school was to get you through your multiple choice written tests, a bit of trivia about something like a cockpit door panel would be easy to miss and or forget.

I’m an average pilot at best but one thing I am actually good at is learning random stuff like that, and my level of knowledge on this was limited to “oh yeah, now that I see that I remember that nugget” but it wasn’t at the front of my mind for sure

 

[bike21]

Better put a torque wrench on them to make sure

 

[Roger Roger]

MFW “righty tighty” turns into “righty loosey”