Boeing CEO thanks Alaska Airlines pilots for landing plane ‘in scary circumstances’ after blowout
I know I’m preaching to the choir here this isn’t a lecture not by any stretch it’s nothing more than a reminder for this seriousness with which we have to approach our work huge thanks and compliments to the Alaskan Air Team that flew the airplane Number One Pilots and crew who got that
Airplane back on the ground at a very tumultuous moment in very SC very circumstance they train their lives to do that but you don’t know till you know
The boss of Boeing has thanked the pilots and crew of the Alaska Airlines plane for landing safely after the aircraft suffered a blowout in mid-air.
No one was injured when an unused cabin door broke away on the flight from Portland, Oregon, on Friday 5 January, shortly after take-off.
“Huge thanks and compliments to the Alaska Airlines team. Pilots and crew who got that aeroplane back on the ground at a very tumultuous moment, in very scary circumstances,” Boeing’s president and chief executive Dave Calhoun said.
“They train their lives to do that, but you don’t know until you know. I hope most never know.”
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2 comments
The pilots were extremely fortunate, had this happened at a higher altitude the aircraft could have come apart…
Fact: people lives being taken for granted on profits will be unacceptable!
Emotionally we accept apology based on the context and the way apology was asked, but let this not become repeated! Your emotional applogy mean nothing to us!