'Shut that door'!

[Capetonian]

My mother was booked on a cancelled BEA flight and was then booked onto the THY DC10. Being extremely conservative and suspicious, she decided to wait until she could get onto a BEA flight. In those days, Turkey seemed as remote and exotic as Mongolia, and geography wasn't her strongest point.

[Undried Plum]

That partly-inflated escape slide looks like it's as much use as a chocolate fireguard.

[llondel]

What Boeing did was where they stuck the bloody APU in the 727, as if an "oh sh!t we forgot about fitting that thing!" afterthought!

Made a hell of a racket.

I thought they just beefed it up and called it an engine.

[Rwy in Sight]

There is something wrong with that slide.

[barkingmad]

There is something wrong with that slide.

Well, floppies were all the rage in those days!

[ian16th]

What Boeing did was where they stuck the bloody APU in the 727, as if an "oh sh!t we forgot about fitting that thing!" afterthought!

Made a hell of a racket.

I thought they just beefed it up and called it an engine.

Didn't they do this for real on a Trident?

[TheGreenGoblin]

Final loads testing on Boeing’s delayed 777-9 has been suspended while investigations continue into the failure of a cargo door during pressurization evaluations on the static test airframe at Everett, Wash. on Sept 5.

The incident occurred during the final phases of the 777X major structural test campaign, which is being conducted in a specially built 1.6 million lb. steel rig...

Boeing Suspends 777X Loads Tests After Pressure Failure