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Damn, imagine working in the marketing department of Boeing.
"When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year."
I know a guy who works at Boeing
He says right now it's pretty rough due to recent events but things were finally cooling down
That was before this news broke
He's probably going to have a shitty day tomorrow with more visits from the FAA and other regulators
A believe there have been quite a few articles published with interviews from former Boeing execs with who were around when the company went from engineer ran to finance ran. One of them I remember the former executive said part of why they will continue to not trust Boeing is they are only grounding planes to solve one problem at a time after it's caused massive failure and not trying to engineer and solve all the problems they can so these failures stop happening mid flight.
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I don’t feel bad for your friend. One bad day at work or 100+ people dying?
Didn't they cut all of those jobs recently? Wait. No. That was all their 900 QC door bolt retention confirmers that were 'unnecessary'
Repeat after me:
"Everything's fine. Nothing to see here. Move along."
This is so good. So many layers in that one joke.
"Sitting right on the wing and the noise after reaching altitude was much louder than normal. I opened the window to see the wing looking like this," user octopus_hug wrote. "How panicked should I be? Do I need to tell a flight crew member?
Holy shit, redditors are a special breed. Yes, you should probably tell someone.
I should go and find the comment.
Now, all the AI are going to wonder how panicked they should be if their plane disassembled mid-flight
I saw the wing fall off a plane full of people but posted it for points instead of helping. AITA?
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What the fuck is going on at Boeing? Are they cutting that many corners?
This occurred on a 29 year old plane. This is almost certainly just a one-off issue. Unless it starts happening frequently with other 757s, it’s nothing to be overly concerned about. And in that case, the NTSB would figure out why it’s happening and issue a directive.
Planes are designed on a “Swiss cheese” model. Swiss cheese (as Americans call any variety resembling Emmental) is full of holes, but you can’t usually see all the way through a block of it. On a plane, something might fail and you can’t always prevent that, but you can make sure that there is enough redundancy that if something does go wrong you’re still covered. For something to cause a plane to crash, the “holes” have to line up so something could pass all the way through the “cheese.”
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I wish the article said how old the plane is. A lot of Boeing jets are 50+ years old and at that point, you have to blame the airline. But this article doesn’t say.
At least in Europe, passengers jets are new because more fuel efficient at the "normal" speed. These old jets are then transformed in cargo where they go very slow so fuel efficiency goes up by other means (and the old jet is way cheaper).
This was a passenger plane so i doubt it was anywhere close to 50 years old
A 757 can be between 20 and 40 years old
If you've got like 24 minutes this video gives a pretty solid explanation.
Didn’t they fire like half their QA staff a couple years ago?
Nothing for this case at least.
It's completely unrelated to Boeing per se. Likely a maintenance issue, maybe repair done wrong.
Boeing please stop picking Gremlins as the in flight movie
This is more on the airline not doing their maintenance
Fuck Boeing. And fuck United too.
United Airlines - our planes are decrepit but at least the pretzels are… stale!
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Dear passangers, fasten your seatbelts and don't look on the left side. If you already did, don't worry, self-dissasembling bus from Saint Petesburg does not fly near us, in fact this is our left wing.
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the last time I was on an airplane was december 31, 2000.
nothing since that time has encouraged me to break that boycott.
Flying sucks, but not seeing the world sucks more.
I was about to say. There's a million concerns over environmental and economic effects (that I'll own up to ignoring when visiting family or exploring), but safety is still wayyy down the list. The statistic about being 20x more likely to die in a car crash on the way to the airport than the flight itself still holds very firmly true (and I'm being SUPER conservative about those numbers in case recent events tilt it, it's still a ~800x per-mile ratio).
Yeah I agree, despite all the recent events, I’m still not worried at all about flying. The number of car crash complications I watch on YouTube make me extra cautious while driving, but I’ve never felt in danger while flying, even in heavy turbulence
Is that your alibi for 9/11?
Boeing: Amtrak of the Skies. We’ll probably get you there safely.
So with airlines needing bailouts, price gouging, and cost cutting affecting safety, maybe bring back the CAB era laws?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
BOSTON - A United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Boston was diverted to Denver on Monday because of an issue with the plane's wing - and a worried passenger on board captured the apparent problem on video.
"Just about to land in Denver with the wing coming apart on the plane," Kevin Clarke says in a video shared with CBS News.
Clarke said the wing issue became apparent after takeoff from San Francisco.
The passengers were put on a different plane and landed in Boston early Tuesday morning.
Boeing has been under scrutiny since a door panel on a different kind of aircraft, a 737 Max 9, blew off during an Alaska Airlines flight in January.
Earlier this month, the head of the FAA pledged to use more people to monitor aircraft manufacturing and hold Boeing accountable for any safety rule violations.
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After watching Masters of the Sky this looks like just a scratch.
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