And it failed. Now imagine how many tens of thousands of other components are on the verge of failing like that protective cover and enjoy your flight. ✈️
So you’re saying there are two diametrically opposed possibilities?
a) it’s not supposed to come off. Hence not designed to withstand a suction cup or…
b) it is designed to come off very easily. By a baby.
I’m sure it’s a scratch pane and that it’s meant to be removable. But there’s no way a scratch pane is meant to be pulled off by a passenger let along a baby.
A scratch pane is meant to keep the passenger away from the actual glass
a) not designed to withstand a suction cup pulling on it -> may come off when pulling on it with a suction cup
b) designed to be pulled off by a suction cup -> should come off when pulling on it with a suction cup
a) is included in b)
It be surprisingly easy to disassemble things, when you happen to have the correct tool. We also do not know for how long the baby has been tugging away at it.
Yes, it is supposed to keep the passengers away from the glass, but it is not safety-relevant, if it does not. It is for thermal insulation and, avoiding having to replace the actual windows due to scratches, dirt, etc. This is immaterial to the question, if it failed or not though. The only relevant question in that regard is, if it was (albeit accidentally) removed the way it was designed to be removed or not A baby being able to remove that part in the intended way points to a potential design flaw, not a bad part.
Edit: According to this post the baby removed the part in the intended way.
That’s not how any of this works. A cosmetic interior piece “failing” is not indicative that any actual important parts of the plane will fail. And the maintenance of even minor components like this is heavily regulated. As soon as the plane lands the pilots will write up it up as a discrepancy, maintenance personnel will come out to look at it, and they’ll either fix it immediately if possible or secure it safely until it can be fixed in the near future.
It's always depressing when you see in real time that not only do people not have any idea how things work, they react with fear at the thought of trying to understand how things work.
Unless that thing was fractured and dented, it did not “fail”. You probably panic when you see a highway overpass with cracks in the concrete or visible repair work being done.
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u/CamTheChamp1 Aug 20 '24
Good thing there’s multiple pieces of glass