50 injured on Boeing flight to Auckland: was the movement of a cockpit seat responsible for the horror flight?

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Suddenly, the LATAM Boeing 787 sank en route from Sydney, Australia to Auckland, New Zealand. On March 11, it was said that the Dreamliner was shaken violently due to a “technical problem.” “People were flying through the cabin,” one passenger said. Although the Boeing was able to land in Auckland as planned in the late afternoon (local time), the onward flight to Santiago de Chile was initially cancelled.

As another passenger told the Australian newspaper Daily Telegraph after landing, one of the pilots told him that the displays had gone out and control of the plane had been lost for a short time.

The flight recorder is being evaluated

However, as the trade magazine ‘The Air Current’ writes, the research would go in a different direction. A Latin American safety official is quoted as saying that an unwanted movement of a cockpit seat could have caused the plane’s nose to tilt downward. The movement could therefore have been caused unintentionally by a pilot.

The 50 people injured during the flight, including several crew members, were immediately treated by doctors after landing. The rescuers were on duty with five ambulances, the St. John Ambulance rescue service announced. The flight recorder is currently being evaluated.

Meanwhile, the problems at Boeing continue: in January, an incident involving a virtually new Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 Max caused a fuselage fragment to break off shortly after takeoff. The more than 170 people on board largely escaped the horror. The US Department of Justice is now investigating this case.

Source: Blick