What: Saudi Arabian Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-90-30 en route from Riyadh to Taif Saudi Arabia
Where: Taif
When: Apr 28th 2009
Why: On landing, an overwing exit door opened and fell into the cabin. Plug-type doors are held taught by differential air pressure; but it has not been determined why the door opened.

George’s Point of View

I have shoes I refuse to throw away that are, I’m sure, 30 years old. I don’t even wear them but I figure they deserve to share space in my closet with my newer stuff just for old time sake.

Maybe the owners of some of these very old planes should do the same. Don’t put them out in the desert to rot away. Send them to a museum. But stop using them to for take offs and landings.