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It appears to me that the crew member was not replacing a window. Replacing a window is not a quick and easy task, and has to be done by the ground maintenance crew. He is putting back in place the plastic trim that goes around the window. Like putting a picture frame around a picture. The trim piece is cosmetic only and does not impact the integrity of the window.United pilot pushes window back in before takeoff.
United pilot seemingly caught repairing plane window before takeoff in alarming video
Alarming video posted by a passenger showing an apparent pilot replacing a window before a flight from Denver to Dallas,nypost.com
I think it would be very difficult to come up with such a statistic. There are so many variables involved, mostly the reporting of such occurrences. There are lots of things that can and do occur on flights, not the least of which is turbulence. People who have not flown much can have very high anxiety levels over normal sounds, such as the flaps and landing gear retracting after takeoff. Turbulence is a whole different beast. Even seasoned travelers can loose faith in the integrity of the airplane when severe turbulence is encountered. I have been on 747s that shook so violently that I bet 350 or more on board experienced elevated heart rates and thought for sure a wing would soon disengage from the body. But these people generally don't report their thoughts of the airplane crashing to any agency. And the 1 passenger in 7 who though the plane would crash, if it did crash, and he died, then his premonition would not have been recorded.I read a report many years ago that said if a passenger gets up and starts saying, "Get me off this flight, it's going to crash," there's a very good chance the plane really will crash, like 1 out of 7. Apparently there's a lot of intuitive flyers out there.
As Wee pointed out earlier (post #83), the crew member was not replacing a window, but just a piece of trim around the window opening in the plastic interior panel. This is not a "repair" that would require a logbook entry. In fact, a Cabin Attendant could have done a similar repair with Duct Tape and still be perfectly legal.
The "Press" has found something to blow out of proportion to scare people, because they profit from it.
I will point out that just because the person doing the work has a pilot uniform on, it is not reasonable to assume that that person is not a licensed aircraft mechanic. I hold both an Airline Transport Rating as a pilot, and an Airframe and Powerplant Rating as a mechanic. I know many others that hold both pilot and mechanic ratings. It is actually pretty common.
I know that for many years some at AOPA have encouraged such dual-rating, frequently going for A&P first because understanding the care and feeding of your machine gives you a better eye for your preflights. Similar to how Kelly Johnson at the Skunk Works insisted he had to do at least one high-performance test flight every year because he felt that "if I don't have the living hell scared out of me in a cockpit regularly I'll lose my perspective on designing planes."As Wee pointed out earlier (post #83), the crew member was not replacing a window, but just a piece of trim around the window opening in the plastic interior panel. This is not a "repair" that would require a logbook entry. In fact, a Cabin Attendant could have done a similar repair with Duct Tape and still be perfectly legal.
The "Press" has found something to blow out of proportion to scare people, because they profit from it.
I will point out that just because the person doing the work has a pilot uniform on, it is not reasonable to assume that that person is not a licensed aircraft mechanic. I hold both an Airline Transport Rating as a pilot, and an Airframe and Powerplant Rating as a mechanic. I know many others that hold both pilot and mechanic ratings. It is actually pretty common.
The "Press" hates blue collar people who earn 6-figure incomes and are enjoying this opportunity to tee off on Boeing.The "Press" has found something to blow out of proportion to scare people, because they profit from it.
Just to let you know, the story was from back in the 1990s, pre-9/11. I haven flown since around 2003, before things got really crazy in the airports and on airplanes. Back in the 1990s I used to run to the connecting flight to see if I could get onto an earlier flight, and it usually worked. I doubt that can happen today, but then I don't know, because I avoid airports now.I think it would be very difficult to come up with such a statistic. There are so many variables involved, mostly the reporting of such occurrences. There are lots of things that can and do occur on flights, not the least of which is turbulence. People who have not flown much can have very high anxiety levels over normal sounds, such as the flaps and landing gear retracting after takeoff. Turbulence is a whole different beast. Even seasoned travelers can loose faith in the integrity of the airplane when severe turbulence is encountered. I have been on 747s that shook so violently that I bet 350 or more on board experienced elevated heart rates and thought for sure a wing would soon disengage from the body. But these people generally don't report their thoughts of the airplane crashing to any agency. And the 1 passenger in 7 who though the plane would crash, if it did crash, and he died, then his premonition would not have been recorded.
When I worked in Boeing Commercial aviation marketing years ago, the company took safety as the number one priority. There are lots of sources at the US federal level that contain data that has to be reported, such as the number of flights, dates, times, safety incidents. The probability of a flight having an incident resulting in a crash is 0.000001%.
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The probability of anyone dying in a crash is even smaller:
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