Re: A plane flying out of Portland, OR, had a big oopsie (no one hurt)

On 1/5/24 22:25, danny burstein wrote:
> if anyone's still reading this group...
> 
> [Oregon news]
> 
> BREAKING: An Alaska Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency 
> landing at Portland International Airport on Friday night after a large 
> window section of the aircraft blew out in mid-air.
>      ======
> rest (w/photos)
> https://www.kptv.com/2024/01/06/plane-window-blows-out-mid-air-makes-emergency-landing-portland-airport/


Compared to the 'pedagogical' issues a while back this could be a 
biggie. I didn't know Boeing was using anything other than plug doors 
that can only go inward, is this something new or was it something else 
entirely? I knew of a 200 cargo once that blew a cargo door half a km 
over itself into the field on the ground; I mean if a door blows at 
40000 feet and m 0.80 nothing will be left of the airframe. Metyhionks 
them folks was very lucky ity blew sooner than later.