Mid-air explosion blows hole in side of Somali passenger plane

[facthunter]

The front part of the ALOHA plane, (737 Convertible) was lucky not to fail completely in download, when it was still flying. Nev

 

 

[dutchroll]

Strong floor beams & longerons!

 

 

[facthunter]

From memory they have a fairly big central Keel Beam between the main gear wheel wells. Nev

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

Lucky the departing structures didn't do massive damage to the tail surfaces!

 

 

[Gnarly Gnu]

Lucky the departing structures didn't do massive damage to the tail surfaces!

Yes, only an African jihadi shaped hole in the fuselage. Should patch up just fine.

 

 

[kgwilson]

Or the United Airlines B747 flying between Honolulu and Auckland, when a cargo door burst open ripping out part of the fuselage.

I think this was one of the main drivers to make all cargo doors open inwards from then onwards

 

 

[M61A1]

I think this was one of the main drivers to make all cargo doors open inwards from then onwards

The problem with inwards opening doors is that they intrude on your cargo space.....the bigger the door, the bigger the intrusion.

 

 

[facthunter]

The door had been giving trouble. I think they used a fork lift to force it closed. Not recommended procedure. Nev

 

 

[dutchroll]

The United 811 door loss which was pictured was actually traced to an electrical fault (short circuit) in the door locking system which drove the latches towards unlocked after the aircraft departed.

 

The eventual recovery of the door from the ocean bed several years later allowed them to determine this. Also a couple of years after this accident there was an incident on the tarmac with another United B747 where engineers were trying to trace an electrical fault in the cargo door and it spontaneously opened.

 

Boeing had to redesign all B747 cargo door locking mechanisms after this accident.

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

Couple of DC10 cargo doors blew off as well.

 

 

[facthunter]

The floor distorting had something to do with that PLUS you could force the lever and the indicators would show closed, but the mechanism( latches,) that held the door closed, hadn't quite got there. Pilots liked flying the DC 10, but it had a few problems. Nev

 

 

[red750]

Somali plane bomber handed laptop - CCTV video.

 

https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/30772688/cctv-reveals-moment-somali-plane-bomb-was-handed-to-bomber-hidden-in-laptop/

 

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