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An emergency slide that fell off of a Delta passenger jet shortly after take-off last week reportedly turned up two days later outside the home of a lawyer whose firm is coincidently suing the Boeing plane manufacturer over safety issues.

Jake Bissell-Linsk, whose firm filed suit against Boeing after one of its planes lost a door plug mid-air back in January, said he discovered the deflated slide washed up outside his oceanfront home near New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday.

“I didn’t want to touch it but I got close enough to get a close look at it,” he told The New York Post of the bizarre discovery along the shore of Belle Harbor, Queens.

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[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 166 points 1 year ago

How have they not grounded every Boeing plane at this point? The company needs to be federalized.

[-] CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 102 points 1 year ago

The plane is 34 years old. It's probably more likely it's Delta's lack of maintenance than a problem with Boeing.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

While I know you're correct... And there is definitely going to be a media bias in reporting... There seems to have been a remarkably large number of issues with Boeing planes specifically lately.

[-] Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago

Shitting on Boeing is getting clicks. So the news keeps reporting on every bit of anything they can find related to them. The incident rate isn't going up. At the same time there have been a few issues with Airbus planes but that's not getting engagement as much so the news isn't focusing on them.

[-] Dieinahole@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

I mean, they fucking killed a guy. So you know. Probably wouldn't murk a dude if their shit was up to standard

[-] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 26 points 1 year ago
[-] Godric@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Maybe bcause shades of nuance exists tho?

[-] Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Should GM be responsible for a tire on your car going flat after you've owned it for 15 years?

[-] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Why have they not grounded every car? Despite all the safety problems at boeing, they are still way safer than automobiles.

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Not all Boeing planes are garbage, and they are the cornerstone of domestic air travel. If we suddenly stopped flying them, ticket prices would triple. We have a lot of airbuses and some aging McDonnell Douglas planes, but Boeing probably makes up about half of American passenger planes.

[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 100 points 1 year ago

This HAS to be the onion right?

[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

At this point, maybe there's enough people suing boeing that the odds of a random plane piece falling on a lawyer involved rises significantly.

[-] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago

you know what I'm starting to believe that god does actually exist and he's just messing with us for his own entertainment at this point

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 38 points 1 year ago

Parthenon gods work well for this shit. Zeus had a bad day and wanted a laugh.

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Has anyone recently been raped by a goose?

[-] card797@champserver.net 1 points 1 year ago

Is he havin a laugh?

[-] clgoh@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Or we live in a simulation.

[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 16 points 1 year ago

Is there a meaningful difference between a god and a creator of a virtual universe?

[-] Entropywins@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, only one of those is possible...

[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago

I don't think that's something that us as humans can ever know.

[-] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

A simulation should approximate reality. What this is, it can't be that.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Good point, but that may be some form of contemporary art

Or both

Maybe neither

[-] card797@champserver.net 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] card797@champserver.net 1 points 1 year ago

There is no proof of God nor the simulation.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Lack of evidence isn’t evidence.

Just because you can’t prove god or simulation doesn’t exist isn’t proof that they don’t exist.

I asked how you knew, and you gave me an opinion.

In other words you don’t know, and you can’t prove or disprove it.

[-] card797@champserver.net 1 points 1 year ago

You are claiming that something is a certain way. The burden of proof is on the accuser. People claiming that we are in a simulation should prove it. I don't see any evidence of this presented.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There’s no burden of proof. This isn’t a court room.

You saying there isn’t a god/simulation is just as much of an accusation as someone saying there is.

You can’t prove or disprove it.

Since you’re claiming there is no god then by your logic you also have the burden of proof.

Unfortunately for you, the lack of evidence isn’t proof of anything. It doesn’t prove or disprove anything.

Your claim is just as wild as someone saying the opposite. Either way you’re taking a massive leap of faith to definitively say there is no god.

It’s no different than someone claiming there is a god. The position is equal.

The only definitive stance you can take is admitting it’s possible. Anything more is bias and opinion.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Process 8759264 (clgoh@lemmy.ca) please report to rehabilitation

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Hang on, Margaret, someone just delivered a new piece of evidence."

I cannot WAIT for the docu-drama series about all this.

[-] Blackout@kbin.run 22 points 1 year ago

Compared to Boeing, I look like I have my shit together.

[-] Philharmonic3@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago
[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Not sure what you are trying to say there.

[-] Pronell@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They don't like rich lawyers. Few do.

But we do want lawyers skilled enough to be able to hurt major corporations, and then expect them to work cheap.

It's not all that hard to understand when you're downtrodden. But it is a bit counterproductive in my opinion. (That aimed at the original commenter, not at you, though I am sympathetic to both viewpoints.)

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Ah that makes sense.

[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Tbf JFK area Oceanfront isn't nearly as nice as what you're probably picturing. It's not like coastal California, it's cold AF 8mo and rainy the rest. There's only like 2 sand beaches nearby.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I want to see him haul that slide into court to introduce as an exhibit.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago
[-] Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Bit of an understatement, that.

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