Originally Posted by
BoeingDriver99
Hey guys; this is no biggie. Just another airframe malfunction issue from Boeing.
The second video in oceancrosser's post #12 seems to show how this could easily be a maintenance mistake. Slide compartment door not fully closed and latched. And it just pops open when it catches some wind on takeoff.
Sure, Boeing could have made a more foolproof latch. But at the expense of more fiddly little parts that could go wrong. At some point, one has to put some faith in the training of the people that are supposed to close this thing.