American Airlines passengers witness walls split apart

[The King]

Maybe there was a fattie sitting in that part of the plane and caused the rivets to pop out, much like trying to squeeze too fat of an ass into a pair of Walmart britches that are two sizes too small.

[CexMashean]

So an interior panel broke and everybody goes ape shit? Must be a slow news day.

Thats what I was thinking.
Structure of the plane is fine.

Do people also freak out when their door trim in their car has a push pin that comes lose?

[homealone]

I'd bet that's pressure issue unrelated to the actual fuselage. It may have had a rupture in one of the pressure bulkheads between the cargo and passenger areas.


<--- Aerospace Design Engineer

[GhostTX]

I would have thought that'd happen on one of their MD-80s, not the newer 757's. I really hate those old, tired planes.

[talisman]

Thats what I was thinking.
Structure of the plane is fine.

Do people also freak out when their door trim in their car has a push pin that comes lose?

Well, that isn't a dumb as dogshit comparison or anything.

[68RR]

So an interior panel broke and everybody goes ape shit? Must be a slow news day.

yeah.. If they only knew what they look like during overhaul!! LOL!!!

[68RR]

[samuel642000]

Thats what I was thinking.
Structure of the plane is fine.

Do people also freak out when their door trim in their car has a push pin that comes lose?

Well if the door trim on my car, which I know tons about, comes off I know I won't have a nice long fall back to the Earth.

But people that most likely know dick about an aircraft see this shit, I would assume all they could think about is, "Shit that's a long ways down."

[Forever_frost]

Thats what I was thinking.
Structure of the plane is fine.

Do people also freak out when their door trim in their car has a push pin that comes lose?

If the door trim comes loose, can it result in your fiery death?

[CexMashean]

If the door trim comes loose, can it result in your fiery death?

Just like the picture of the plane above, neither will cause that.

You'd probably have flipped out on the pilot, and told him how the constitution says it can't keep you in the plane.

[Ruffdaddy]

I want to get this out there. I have an irrational fear of flying. I know it's more dangerous driving to a location than it is flying statistically speaking...but I hate heights.

In saying that...as weird as it is...it comforts me when I hear of planes having mechanical failures and still landing just fine with no massive casualties.

[Strychnine]

Flight attendants looked at the bucked walls and asked passengers if they could see cracks in the plane.

"They kept asking. To the gal sitting in front of me, I said, 'Look in there, do you see daylight?'" Wilson said.

[CJ]

Apparently it was just an air duct that had broken loose.

[CexMashean]

Apparently it was just an air duct that had broken loose.

NO SIR! IT WAS A PRELUDE TO A FIERY DEATH! DON'T YOU DoWNPLAY THIS LIKE IT'S SOME EBOLA CASE!

[CJ]

hehe, I don't think there is a single person in here that would hear loud popping and panels breaking and sit comfortably flying a few hours to Dallas.