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submitted 9 months ago by Womble@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

Because Boeing were on such a good streak already...

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[-] Augustiner@lemmy.world 158 points 9 months ago

Working for Boeings PR department must be absolute madness right now… imagine having to somehow excuse all those fuck ups and every week there is a new one

[-] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 128 points 9 months ago

Except this one isn't even a Boeing issue - this is a plane Delta has operated since 1992. This is entirely Delta's maintenance's fault. Boeing will still get blamed for it, of course.

[-] Augustiner@lemmy.world 89 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I know, but no one cares who’s responsible at the moment. What people care about is that they read a new article about Boeings planes endangering passengers every 3 days. So while Delta is most likely at fault, Boeing is gonna take the hit to the company image. That’s why I was specifically speaking about the Boeing PR team. Those guys and the crisis managers won’t be able to catch a break for a loooong time.

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

45,000 commercial flights a day in the U.S. 35 deaths in the last 10 years. Thats about 164 million flights.

~115 people dying by car daily, and those numbers have been rising every year...

If planes get their kill ratio up high enough people will stop caring and start saying it is expected/needed.

Clearly more plane crashes are the answer.

[-] porcariasagrada@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

how many car trips per day in the us? must be billions. deaths per mile* per traveler should be the metric, not number of trips.

ps: safest method of transportation is the elevator.

edit:*mile traveled

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 4 points 9 months ago

Elevators don't travel any distance so if anyone is hurt by one they immediately lose by your metrics

[-] porcariasagrada@slrpnk.net 12 points 9 months ago

are you 100% sure that elevators don't travel any distance? or are we going to argue semantics over what distance is or isn't.

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 3 points 9 months ago

You would need to keep track of how high airplanes fly if you did argue semantics

[-] porcariasagrada@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago

in three dimensions you have three axis. all of those measure distance traveled from 0.

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[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"Next up: are Grandma's visits killing her? Investigation finds Boeing builds airframes out of aluminum, which may or may not be linked to alzheimers. More at 11."

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