Page 6 - Design Issue News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

What's the plan? what are we doing? >> jennifer finds that creating two separate environments helps keep her focused. one to handle the nuts and bolts of the business, and the other to let her imagination run wild. >> i do some of my work from my home office, and that's my brain time. then when i'm connected into my team and our productions, then i'm here. it's two different worlds. >> and when faced with daunting challenges, she's developed a unique way to tackle them. >> well, it's only taken 20 years, but when i come up against challenges, i've found that if i can turn it into somewhat of l...

A handle moves l-shaped arms called locking sectors up against the c-latches to keep them in place. in addition, there are pins up and down both sides of the door. normally, all of this holds the door shut, but in the case of united flight 811, something goes horribly wrong. >> forensic analysis of the door indicated that there was actually a short circuit. >> it's an electrical problem that had caused unexpectedly a command to unlock the door, to actually come open. so that it was a design issue. >> finding that cargo door was obviously critical to answering this question. >> it was so critic...

Look at all the other recent incidents, you always come back to this same question. were the pilots properly trained to fly the aircraft into an unusually small number of categories? yes, they learn how to do an engine failure on takeoff. that may happen never. but are they used to hand flying the aircraft at altitude? they're not encouraged to do it. many of them have never done it. >> what are your thoughts sean? i saw you, you don't necessarily agree? >> well you know i think it goes beyond what richard is saying. he is correct. it is a training issue. but there the a bicker problem here. i...

A rethinking of perhaps security features, the technology on board. what sort of changes do you expect to be considered in light of these events? >> one of the things is we need to understand what happened and right now, that is a question that is very much unanswered. so, until we understand it, what changes need to be made, it's speculative at best if it's answerable at all. the boeing 777 has had almost 20 years in service. it's a remarkably safe airplane. it has flown tens of millions of passengers hundreds of millions of miles, so the likelihood that a major design issue has suddenly come...

Normally all of this holds the door shut. in the case of united flight 811, something goes horribly wrong. >> forensic analysis of the door indicated that there was actually a short circuit. >> it's an electrical problem that had caused unexpectedly a command to unlock the door, to actually come open. so that it was a design issue. >> finding that cargo door was critical to answering this question. >> it was so critical that the ntsb actually reissued the report with a different and more up to date cause as well as causing all 747s to be redesigned to prevent this kind of failure from occurrin...