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null By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.Jan. 9, 2024 5:32 pm ETJournal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyDoor plugs aren’t anything new—Airbus uses them to seal off unneeded passenger exits in certain configurations of its A320 and A380 models. For that matter, a door plug and a door work similarly. If either fails, it likely wasn’t properly fastened. In the case of last week’s near-disaster involving an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX, suspicion is doubly heightened by a subsequent discovery by United Airlines of certain bolts that “needed additional tightening.”The plug blew out at 16,500 feet. Luckily no passenger was seated nearby. Luckily the blowout didn’t occur at a higher altitude causing a more explosive decompression. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8About this articleBusiness World“Business World” deals with business and
Jan. 9, 2024 5:32 pm ET
Door plugs aren’t anything new—Airbus uses them to seal off unneeded passenger exits in certain configurations of its A320 and A380 models. For that matter, a door plug and a door work similarly. If either fails, it likely wasn’t properly fastened. In the case of last week’s near-disaster involving an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX, suspicion is doubly heightened by a subsequent discovery by United Airlines of certain bolts that “needed additional tightening.”
The plug blew out at 16,500 feet. Luckily no passenger was seated nearby. Luckily the blowout didn’t occur at a higher altitude causing a more explosive decompression.
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About this article
Holman W. Jenkins Jr. is a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal. He writes the twice-weekly “Business World” column that appears on the paper's op-ed page on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Mr. Jenkins joined the Journal in May 1992 as a writer for the editorial page in New York. In February 1994, he moved to Hong Kong as editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal's editorial page. He returned to the domestic Journal in December 1995 as a member of the paper's editorial board and was based in San Francisco. Mr. Jenkins won a 1997 Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial coverage.
Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Jenkins received a bachelor's degree from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. He was a 1991 journalism fellow at the University of Michigan.
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