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Delta faces US investigation after flight passengers report bloody ears and noses

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/19/delta-airlines-faa-investigation

FAA looking into incident in which Boeing 737-900 had to make emergency landing due to cabin pressure issues

Delta faces US investigation after flight passengers report bloody ears and noses

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating a Delta Air Lines flight after pressurization issues caused some passengers to say they suffered ruptured eardrums and nosebleeds and forced the plane to turn around.

On Sunday, the flight, a Boeing 737-900, was traveling from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Portland, Oregon, when it was forced to make an emergency landing back in Salt Lake City due to pressurization issues.

Speaking to KSLTV, one passenger, Caryn Allen, said she looked over and noticed her husband was leaning forward in his seat and had both of his hands over his ears. Allen then noticed other passengers in pain too, saying: "I looked about a row behind me over on the other side of the aisle and there was a gentleman that clearly had a very bad bloody nose and people were trying to help him."

8 comments

MushuChupacabra

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Much like political stories of wrongdoing, where you know which political party was involved before clicking on the article, I knew which plane manufacturer would be involved before clicking.

Strykker

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The 737-900 launched 24 years. Any issues with it at this point are a failure of the maintenance performed by the owner.

ChocoboRocket

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Yeah, but I assume the entire plane isn't running the original 24 year old parts.

You can install new shit correctly, but if that shit was made by Boeing, then every time shit got replaced it likely got replaced with worse shit.

Eventually all the good Boeing shit gets replaced by okay shit and that gets maintained with mediocre shit.

Eventually some shit breaks and the backup shit is also shit so the shitty redundancies don't actually do shit because Boeing has been non-stop shitting for decades, and then all the shit finally hits the fan and that is currently where Boeing is at.

There's a ton of shit and a lot of fans, so we'll be seeing this same stories play out for a long time

BlemboTheThird

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The shit tides are rising, Randy. And they’re not gonna recede anytime soon...

partial_accumen

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Yeah, but I assume the entire plane isn’t running the original 24 year old parts.

The point is, if this was a design flaw inherent to the design of the aircraft, it would have shown up earlier than 24 years later on a single plane.

SomeoneSomewhere

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Boeing doesn't make many of the parts in the aircraft, especially things like pressurization controllers. Those come from contractors like Honeywell.

What they do is design the systems around the parts, including selecting the desired level of redundancy, and commission the custom parts needed.

The 737 is still mostly a 1960s design built mostly to 1960s rules. There have been plenty of improvements but that's not the same as a clean sheet design built to be entirely automatic even when stuff breaks.

Maeve

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Oh, lawsuits will be filed against both entities. It will be interesting to see how far they go, with each party.

ThunderWhiskers

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Delta and Boeing just going for the high score this year.