Passengers on flight to Auckland describe ‘mid-air drop’ with people thrown from their seats
Fifty people have been treated by ambulance crews and 13 people are in hospital after an in-bound aircraft to Auckland experienced a “strong movement” mid-flight that reportedly saw passengers suddenly thrown about the plane.
In a statement, Hato Hone St John Ambulance said the organisation responded to an incident at Auckland International airport involving an inbound aircraft after a call at 3.58pm local time on Monday.
Five ambulances, a major incident support team vehicle, two rapid response vehicles and a number of senior personnel were dispatched to treat passengers who had been injured on the flight.
What kind of “technical problem” could cause such a sudden drop? I know a sudden change in air could, but that’s not a technical problem.
Well, it was a Boeing, so… probably bad QA, Software, Missing bolts…
https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/LAN800
First question I had: "Was it a boeing?."🤔
The flight controls are well capable of sending the plane on a negative G roller coaster. But usually there are measures in place to prevent that
Or could be a gremlin on the wing and no one belives William Shatner
Is that gremlin named Dave Calhoun, the CEO of boeing?
Interesting. My milkman was called Davey Calhoun when I was a kid. We called him Davey the Crow because he was a bin-raking smelly bastard
This was in the Scottish Highlands in the 1970s, do you think it’s the same guy?
I do. I do think it’s the same guy.
It might be something like Qantas 72 where a fault in a component that supplies vital data to the flight computer caused two uncontrolled drops which resulted in over 100 people getting injured.
A dive I can understand, but is there a difference between a dive and a drop? As a layman, I imagine when they say it dropped, they mean they lost altitude without pitching down (though obviously they’d pitch down naturally to regain airspeed).