Woman out for walk finds possible plane door on Wellington beach
Posted by crazykiwi1@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 32 comments
Can you add any more info?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/community/594279/woman-out-for-walk-finds-possible-plane-door-on-wellington-beach
doctorfortoys@reddit
What is this? A door for ants?!
Hank_moody71@reddit
Is the part from a Boeing 777? I’ve tried looking it up and came up with nothing
ImissTBBT@reddit
Wrong shape for a 777 window anyway. Plus the date marking predates the 777 by about 12 years.
Hank_moody71@reddit
Good catch
PeckerNash@reddit
It is not from MH370.
Stoney3K@reddit
I was thinking MH370 debris for a second because it's in New Zealand but that interior panel looks way too small to be from a 777.
LeeCarvallo-@reddit
Date seemd to predate 777 by over a decade.
furryapplez@reddit
As a kiwi this is from a collector of plane parts and in the resent flooding got washed out to sea then drifted back in with the tides
Puzzled_Elephant_190@reddit
this panel is a kiwi?
kupuwhakawhiti@reddit
I did wonder if it was something like that, since it was at Ōwhiro bay.
crazykiwi1@reddit (OP)
Is that what blocked your water pipes down there lol
Fluffy-Trouble5955@reddit
no, that was all the bullshit coming from the Big Top
DeanMLL@reddit
Article updated as it was a marketing stunt.
AliceTawhai@reddit
What on earth were they marketing
SpoonNZ@reddit
Plane sidewall panels
SAMEO416@reddit
See if there’s a set of winning lottery numbers written on the underside.
evarga@reddit
4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42
TexanMillers@reddit
Xenoss006@reddit
It’s not a door, it’s a cabin sidewall. Easily removed from the inside of the cabin during maintenance, this is probably from a plane that was scrapped or had a new cabin modification done as was marked for disposal.
Sometimes the disposal items employees can take home if they (and the company) so desire. Might have flew off someone’s truck or something, but it did not fall from an aircraft mid flight.
f1hunor@reddit
Bold of you to assume that the employee would ask the company...
Logical-Madman@reddit
The area it was found in had been hit by flooding about a week earlier.
Kaffe-Mumriken@reddit
Must be on the floodplanes
I’ll see myself out
SmallRocks@reddit
About 2 ft AWL
Logical-Madman@reddit
Around Wellington it's more a case of "Come Hill or High Water"
flightwatcher45@reddit
Get pics of more numbers and I'll get the plane for you.
ThatHellacopterGuy@reddit
That’s not a door.
XYooper906@reddit
It's an interior sidewall panel from some kind of aircraft. It's not a door. Someone will be able to identify which aircraft type it came from by the part number.
Pretty_Aside_7674@reddit
wouldn't the window be bigger if it was from MH370?
railker@reddit
And after 12 years it'd have something growing on/attached to it.
Original post/images on the local r/Wellington subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellington/comments/1t23x7i/found_what_looks_like_a_plane_hatch_down_%C5%8Dwhiro/
Zinger21@reddit
The 1983 stamp pre-dates the 777 so it’s probably a safe bet it didn’t come from that.
shiftyjku@reddit
It looks more like an overwing pop-out from a narrowbody.
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