757 fuslage hole

[amsatv]

I heard rumors today that there is a 757 OTS in Miami that has a hole in the crown skin area. I heard the plane was at 30,000 feet and 1X2 foot section of skin came off.....can anybody confirm this....

 

[boston]

I heard rumors today that there is a 757 OTS in Miami that has a hole in the crown skin area. I heard the plane was at 30,000 feet and 1X2 foot section of skin came off.....can anybody confirm this....

There talking about this on Airliners.net

 

[Interested]

I heard rumors today that there is a 757 OTS in Miami that has a hole in the crown skin area. I heard the plane was at 30,000 feet and 1X2 foot section of skin came off.....can anybody confirm this....

Must not be true, since the news didn't say anything about it.

 

[paul1]

heard the same yesterday they say everything is huss huss hum!!!!1 a/c ots in mia. nothing in the fmr

 

[amsatv]

There talking about this on Airliners.net

According to the National Transportation Safety Board, Flight 1640 left Miami International Airport at about 10 p.m. Approximately 30 minutes in the flight, the Boeing B-757-223 experienced a rapid decompression at about 31-thousand feet. Oxygen masks were deployed inside the aircraft as the captain declared an emergency and returned safely to Miami.

An inspection of the plane on the tarmac found a 1 foot by 2 foot hole just behind the forward door on the left side of the fuselage. The NTSB investigators are working to determine what caused that section of the plane to give way."

 

[TIME FOR CHANGE]

Plane in Bay 2
sealed up like a drum roped off no one in or out.
They taped a plastic bag over the damage I guess its in the NTSB's jurisdiction.
I took some pics but they arent worth posting.

 

[Interested]

Just saw this article on WSJ. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304786904575580991048460452.html?ru=yahoo&mod=yahoo_hs

 

[telebender1956]

My link

Looks like the hole is in the crown skin in a low stress area of the fuselage.[low by comparison to door or window cut-outs.]

 

[Mr.Robot-tow]

I have seen the pics of the damage up close and inside of the interior looking up through the hole.Its a perfect retangular cutout.Just up on top of the crown skin just aft of R-1 were the left side of the crown skin meets the side skin just a few inches from the skin lap all 3 rows of the fastners held so it looks like no corrision cause it .Its were the skin starts to mill down for reduce weight,some are looking at the skin thickness to see if it was milled to close as it comes off the skin lap it thins out and this is were it rip open.No jagged edges at all perfect cutout,it lost the back half of the damage piece and the front piece was still attached and curled over from the wind.No tail damage occured due to the departure of the piece of skin.I was ask not to post the pics due to the on going NTSB.Some talk of a possible crown skin thickness check on certain production dates.Awaiting a metal specialist from DC.I thought I posted this info as to damped speculation and try to calm Pilots and F/A's.

 

[Hopeful]

I have seen the pics of the damage up close and inside of the interior looking up through the hole.Its a perfect retangular cutout.Just up on top of the crown skin just aft of R-1 were the left side of the crown skin meets the side skin just a few inches from the skin lap all 3 rows of the fastners held so it looks like no corrision cause it .Its were the skin starts to mill down for reduce weight,some are looking at the skin thickness to see if it was milled to close as it comes off the skin lap it thins out and this is were it rip open.No jagged edges at all perfect cutout,it lost the back half of the damage piece and the front piece was still attached and curled over from the wind.No tail damage occured due to the departure of the piece of skin.I was ask not to post the pics due to the on going NTSB.Some talk of a possible crown skin thickness check on certain production dates.Awaiting a metal specialist from DC.I thought I posted this info as to damped speculation and try to calm Pilots and F/A's.

Is that cutout an old repair? Manufacturer's design?

 

[1AA]

I have seen the pics of the damage up close and inside of the interior looking up through the hole.Its a perfect retangular cutout.Just up on top of the crown skin just aft of R-1 were the left side of the crown skin meets the side skin just a few inches from the skin lap all 3 rows of the fastners held so it looks like no corrision cause it .Its were the skin starts to mill down for reduce weight,some are looking at the skin thickness to see if it was milled to close as it comes off the skin lap it thins out and this is were it rip open.No jagged edges at all perfect cutout,it lost the back half of the damage piece and the front piece was still attached and curled over from the wind.No tail damage occured due to the departure of the piece of skin.I was ask not to post the pics due to the on going NTSB.Some talk of a possible crown skin thickness check on certain production dates.Awaiting a metal specialist from DC.I thought I posted this info as to damped speculation and try to calm Pilots and F/A's.

You described your findings in detail by just looking at some pics? Sounds to me you where or are in Miami as part of the investigating team. Uhmmmmmm??? 3 rows of fasteners, no corrosion, near the skin lap and so on. I may not be a rocket scientist but you sure seem to be describing the damage in great detail as if you were standing right there.
Do tell us more.

 

[chris perry]

You described your findings in detail by just looking at some pics? Sounds to me you where or are in Miami as part of the investigating team. Uhmmmmmm??? 3 rows of fasteners, no corrosion, near the skin lap and so on. I may not be a rocket scientist but you sure seem to be describing the damage in great detail as if you were standing right there.
Do tell us more.

Just do some looking pics are on internet.....

 

[nicky guy]

Well another example of why many Pilots say......."If it ain't Boeing,.....it ain't going" !
Meaning if it was a defect, at least no tragedy occured.
And if it was a defect,..........well, even Boeing isn't perfect.
Bottom line,..........everyone is Safe !

 

[Hatu]

Boeing Co. and federal air-safety officials are stepping up scrutiny of certain Boeing 757 aircraft after a two-foot hole opened earlier this week in the fuselage of an American Airlines jet cruising at 31,000 feet, resulting in rapid cabin decompression.

The emergency, which occurred on an AMR Corp. American Airlines jet en route from Miami to Boston on Tuesday, prompted the crew and 154 passengers to don oxygen masks about half an hour into the flight. The twin-engine 757 descended to a lower altitude, turned around and made a safe landing at Miami International Airport. There were no injuries.

But industry officials said the incident—which created a rupture roughly two feet long and a foot wide above the jet's front left cabin door—bears some similarity to cracks found last month in the fuselage of a United Continental Holdings' United Airlines Boeing 757.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304786904575580991048460452.html?ru=yahoo&mod=yahoo_hs

 

[1AA]

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