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 door plugs since it would be at higher risk of failure.
exit door plug, which are installed as “blanking plates”.
Do you have some more info?
I can’t find any new detailed info and I’m no airplane mechanic.Afaik, blanking plates are usually cosmetic, and the problem occured due to cabin pressure loss. Also, the plane was supposedly certified, recently.
Thx! And, to clarify the situation I copied this comment from @Sarah link.
It’s not a “plug type door”. It’s a plugged door. They’re different things. This isn’t a door at all. It doesn’t open.
Indeed it’s NOT part of the fuselage (plane frame), it was built as an empty socket for the placement of an eventual (extra) emergency door, depanding the seat configuration.
In this plane they did a faulty install of a " plug-in "instead.
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.
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 door plugs since it would be at higher risk of failure.
@Australis13 @HowRu68 There certainly should be.
Do you have some more info? I can’t find any new detailed info and I’m no airplane mechanic.Afaik, blanking plates are usually cosmetic, and the problem occured due to cabin pressure loss. Also, the plane was supposedly certified, recently.
@HowRu68 Lots of informed discussion here. reddit.com/r/aviation/comments…
Thx! And, to clarify the situation I copied this comment from @Sarah link.
It’s not a “plug type door”. It’s a plugged door. They’re different things. This isn’t a door at all. It doesn’t open.
Indeed it’s NOT part of the fuselage (plane frame), it was built as an empty socket for the placement of an eventual (extra) emergency door, depanding the seat configuration. In this plane they did a faulty install of a " plug-in "instead.
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”
This article says cert in Nov, entered service in Dec, and had 145 flights. This was #146.
Holy heck if this is true.