issues, these switches control the cabin altitude warning. in essence, you need that to breathe on the boeing 737. the faa spells it out plainly saying the failure could result in these switches not act tveiting if the cabin altitude exceeds 10,000 feet. back in 2020, it said the failure rate increased in may, prompting this inspection order on 2500 airplanes in the united states. airlines need to do these inspections as part of routine maintenance of 2,000 flight hours which can rack up quickly on a commercial airliner or within 90 days. pete muntean, cnn, washington. this just into cnn, another pandemic era record travel, the tsa has screened 2.2 million people on friday. but many of us still haven t
vibration increased, that s when the cabin altitude warning horn started making noise. indicating the cabin altitude was going through about 14,000 feet. the aircraft began a rapid uncommanded left roll. when you fly on an airliner, you d rarely get over about 20, 25 degrees of bank. this went over to 41 degrees. the pilots levelled the wings and throughout the rest of the flight, there is what i m going to describe as a fair amount of vibration throughout the air frame, the airplane. as i mentioned last evening, the flight crew elected to land with