I like blaming Boeing for the consequences of their greed and recklessness as much as anybody else, but when this story came out, it read pretty much as "in-flight turbulence".
Did any serious new information pop-up suggesting it was a system malfunction? (And it would have to be a pretty worrying and serious one, to throw people against the ceiling, and very, very bad for Boeing if it was so.)
Talk is free, but that doesn't say much. It can be a (natural) misguided attempt to deflect blame.
Were there any cockpit warnings? Full loss of instruments? Conflicting information displayed? Stall warnings with overspeed warnings? Altitude holding problems on autopilot? Erratic system inputs? Before and/or after the mishap?
It will take quite an input to push passengers to the ceiling, an acceleration well beyond what the FBW system will allow.
This particular article addresses none of those points, only repeating what the airline said.
So until new information emerges, this mishap reads like a fairly classic inflight turbulence encounter. See, for instance, this event from December:
The article doesn't explain the cause but it sounds exactly like something that could be turbulence:
> In the incident on Monday, passengers arriving in Aukland told local media that the plane quickly lost altitude, flinging those unsecured towards the ceiling.
> A passenger told radio network RNZ that “people flew through the air because they weren’t wearing their seatbelts”.
Like I said that doesn't mean it was turbulence - but the basic concept of keeping your belt on when seated would have likely prevented most injuries.
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Al-Jazeera has really been on fire digging into Boeing. This video (though from 2014) was remarkable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os
Did any serious new information pop-up suggesting it was a system malfunction? (And it would have to be a pretty worrying and serious one, to throw people against the ceiling, and very, very bad for Boeing if it was so.)
If not, this is nothing more than clickbait.
> The captain later said they had briefly lost their instrumentation, then it came back all of the sudden.
The story, its consequences, (and even the torn ceiling pictures), read very much like this one from December:
https://avherald.com/h?article=51212eb5&opt=0
Were there any cockpit warnings? Full loss of instruments? Conflicting information displayed? Stall warnings with overspeed warnings? Altitude holding problems on autopilot? Erratic system inputs? Before and/or after the mishap?
It will take quite an input to push passengers to the ceiling, an acceleration well beyond what the FBW system will allow.
This particular article addresses none of those points, only repeating what the airline said.
So until new information emerges, this mishap reads like a fairly classic inflight turbulence encounter. See, for instance, this event from December:
https://avherald.com/h?article=51212eb5&opt=0
> In the incident on Monday, passengers arriving in Aukland told local media that the plane quickly lost altitude, flinging those unsecured towards the ceiling.
> A passenger told radio network RNZ that “people flew through the air because they weren’t wearing their seatbelts”.
Like I said that doesn't mean it was turbulence - but the basic concept of keeping your belt on when seated would have likely prevented most injuries.