WestJet Boeing 737 Aborted High Speed Takeoff After Pilot Seat Shifts Fully Backwards

This article reminded me of my first solo back in 1973, when on rotation my seat in the C-150 slid all the way to the rear. I am a short guy and I had to use the very tip of my right foot to keep right rudder pressure. With the seat all the way back the front panel obscured everything but blue sky, so I flew on instruments upwind until I hit pattern altitude and could level off and get the seat readjusted. After I landed and parked the plane my instructor said everything looked great and asked how I felt about my first solo. My reply was something along the line of "I feel fine but we gott'a ground the plane until the left seat latch is fixed". When I told him what happened his jaw dropped and he uttered a few four letter words as he imagined what could have potentially happened.

Many years ago, I was the PF In a RCAF c130 herc. I had the same seat shift at high speed. I simply said "you have control". The PNF became PF in short order. T/O was continued with no further action. I feel my decision was the right one. Hi speed rejects are for the simulator.

Logic = two pilots on each commercial flight, and (at least) an engineer plus conductor for every commercial train (heavy rail, to include subways). Imagine if this were not the case here. I welcome discussion. Thank you.

This appears to more of a maintenance problem than a "faulty equipment" charge. How many cycles/hours are on that aircraft?

Didn't something similar happen on a 787 not too long ago?

I thought this was just a Cessna problem.

Maintenance issue. They failed to identify faulty seat or just pure neglected to do it. Thanks to pilots it all end up without problems.
On the other hand did pilots report that seat has issues.

737 seats are manually moved. Pilot error perhaps?

Here we go again with the “high speed take-off”. So that actually should be a (HSRTO), right?

Not mentioned is who was pilot flying at the moment, but it was probably the captain, therefore able to react instantly. Had it been the FO himself, by the time the captain had had time to react and take over it would probably have been too late to abort and he'd have had to continue the take off. But I'm only speculating.

My first thought was " is this the same plane as the one that had the hard landing/right main gear thru the wing at SXM " and could there be any correlation?