Thread: Door comes off in flight.

Originally Posted by Tins

Bloody lucky that's all he lost.

Apparently he wasn't reticent about (re) telling the Stories. Mother had years of... hearing about it.

Then I popped out, so we can safely assume he was left, 'intact'

Originally Posted by JDNSW

I don't think that one had anything to do with the type of ship - it had a mix of cargo that really should not have been on the same ship!

"T'was WAR time... which excuses any and everything !

I was under the impression that the loads were spread among the ships,- eggs in many baskets

Originally Posted by superquag

"T'was WAR time... which excuses any and everything !

I was under the impression that the loads were spread among the ships,- eggs in many baskets

To quote from the link:-

"Sulphur, cotton bales, timber, lubricating oil drums, turpentine, fish manure and resin were loaded to fill up the empty hold, flouting all normal rules."

This a recipe for starting a fire - on a ship with the rest of the cargo space filled with explosives. Mind you, the disaster was compounded by the port mismanagement when the fire started.

Reminds me a bit of the situation with an older cousin of mine. About 1950 he had a job as a truck driver, delivering drummed petrol from Sydney to NW NSW with a large, by contemporary standards, semi. (This was the start of trucking for this sort of goods, probably got away with it because of the shortage of railway rolling stock in the postwar boom). The company found that there was another lucrative commodity they could carry with the petrol - bottles of oxygen slotted nicely in between the drums, with acetylene at the back. I think he did less than half a dozen trips with this combined load before the state authorities woke up. And the company was out of business, and he was out of work.

Originally Posted by superquag

"T'was WAR time... which excuses any and everything !

I was under the impression that the loads were spread among the ships,- eggs in many baskets

So when it blew, the Port Authorities & everyone else within a couple of miles had egg on their faces?

(& every thing else probably).

Well, actually, the most interesting bit of cargo scattered over the city was gold bars!

Back to the still grounded 737-Max-9...

Just when you think the problem could not get any worse - it does!

The results of hiving off your fuselage manufacturing are coming home to roost. How could using two different QC systems be considered to be a good idea?

Easy - convert to using two different sets of management at different stages of manufacture.

It's kinda like the old definition of a camel as being a horse designed by a committee. Only it seems that we have two committees that cannot talk to each other, so instead of a horse we got a dromedary.