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Of the 394 people on board, 25 sustained injuries, 23 minor and 2 serious. The tailstrike cracked open the aft pressure bulkhead. The damage was repaired by Boeing technicians, and the aircraft was returned to service. [5] [3] [6] The aircraft had flown for 8,830 hours at the time. [5]: 4
The aft pressure bulkhead is the white circular component; its web-like structure led a NASA technician to attach a large model spider to it for comedic effect. The aft pressure bulkhead or rear pressure bulkhead is the rear component of the pressure seal in all aircraft that cruise in a tropopause zone in the Earth's atmosphere. [1]
The subsequent investigation concluded that improperly secured cargo broke free during the take-off and rolled to the back of the cargo hold, crashing through the rear pressure bulkhead and disabling the rear flight control systems. This rendered the aircraft stuck in an uncontrollable pitch-up attitude and induced a stall, and made recovery by ...
Quality failures mentioned in the suit included mis-drilled holes on the 737 Max aft pressure bulkhead, “a very significant problem” that a Spirit AeroSystems product and process verification ...
Just last year, Boeing discovered mis-drilled and misaligned holes in the aft pressure bulkhead of the Max, part of the fuselages made by Spirit, that, unless corrected, could cause cracks in the ...
Airline supplier Spirit Aerosystems says it's aware of a quality issue involving elongated fastener holes on the aft pressure bulkhead on certain models of the 737 fuselage it produces. “Boeing ...
In the aftermath of last week’s Alaska Airlines in-flight emergency, some aviation experts are questioning the structural design of the section of the Boeing 737 Max 9 that blew off the plane.
In 1985, Japan Air Lines Flight 123 lost all hydraulic controls after its vertical stabiliser blew off due to an aft pressure bulkhead failure, and went into phugoid motion. While the crew were able to maintain near-level flight through the use of engine power, the plane lost height over a mountain range northwest of Tokyo before crashing into ...