2023-11-11 13:05:12
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The damaged portholes, pointed out in the report of the British investigation office.
AVIATION – All’s well that ends well. But a plane disaster could well have occurred a few weeks ago over the Atlantic if a passenger had not noticed early enough that the plane was missing windows. These are in any case the conclusions of a report from the British Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB), extracts of which were published on Thursday 9 and Friday 10 November by the press in Great Britain and in the USA.
The scene takes place on Wednesday October 4 aboard an Airbus A321 departing from Stanstead Airport in London bound for Orlando, in the United States. A device used a few weeks earlier by King Charles III to come to France, indicates le Daily Mail.
Quickly after takeoff, the ten or so passengers on this charter realized that the conditions flights were unusual. The cabin was colder and noisier than usual, they told authorities. « Il [un passager] described the cabin noise as “loud enough to damage your hearing””can we read in The report.
Lights used for a film questioned
Once at more than 10,000 feet, or more than 3000 m altitude, when wearing a seat belt is no longer compulsory, one of the passengers headed towards the area where the noise seemed the most intense. . And that’s when he noticed that one of the windows which makes up a porthole was damaged. “He observed that the window seal was clicking under the effect of the air flow and that the glass seemed to have slipped,” notes l’AAIB.
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The damaged window as discovered by a passenger on the London-Orlando flight.
It was then decided, at an altitude of 14,000 feet, to stop the plane’s climb and return to the original airport. If no consequences were observed, a higher altitude could have led to passengers losing consciousness due to depressurization.
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This image shows the lights used for filming a movie the day before the flight in question.
The more in-depth inspection carried out on the tarmac made it possible to identify other windows whose security was not complete. The AAIB report blames the shooting of a film that occurred the day before; very powerful lights used to give the illusion of a sunrise were projected onto the plane distorting the window seam. They have been used too long and too close to the device.
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