Posted on 03/08/2024 8:30:48 AM PST by janetjanet998
That is a very small price to pay for meeting DEI goals in hiring.
Besides, performing aircraft maintenance correctly is a sign of White Supremacy.
11 posted on 3/8/2024, 7:13:15 AM by Army Air Corps
That's certainly true for home appliances! And I'm still driving 15-year-old cars.
Helicopters don’t fly.
They’re so ugly the Earth (or Mars, in one case) repels them.
Three were United maintenance issues. was the 4th United as well?
“Bright young engineers were being hired instead of business degree types and quality came back.”
You described one of our grandkids’. In spite of Covid BS., he worked for a good engineering company in the summers and long holidays. While attending and being graduated in 4 years versus 4+-5 years. at a good engineer college.
That company hired him before his graduation.
Yeah, sure sounds like a design issue:
“A passenger reported the aircraft had landed normally and in normal attitude, when the crew attempted to turn off the aircraft was too fast, skidded, the gear collapsed and the aircraft went off onto soft ground. The passenger disembarked onto the runway via stairs.”
Maybe wait for all the facts before commenting.
“So if there is some foul play, or just sloppy maintenance, this could benefit the C919 and A320 in new sales worldwide.”
Scary insight!
That, I’m not sure. Just commercial aircraft incidents.
Actually, the same is true for me. I have a 15-year-old refrigerator in my garage that we retired from the house when we put in a $2,000 LG refrigerator. I’m not at all worried about the one in the garage but I’m concerned that the LG one will continue functioning without failing.
The image at your link shows the aircraft at the very last taxiway, as though the pilot didn't want to miss it and collapse the asphalt in the striped area.
The pilot likely landed too far down the runway and should have done a go-around instead.
https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1766109097898721336
At the time of the accident it was dark and there were heavy rains.
The Flightradar24 data at the bottom of the image shows a transponder-reported speed of 20 kts.
This headline suggests a different sequence:
United Boeing 737 Max veers OFF the runway into the grass 'after gear collapse'
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4222903/posts
Who to believe, headline writers or transponder data?
Friend spent nearly three grand for new laundry machines. Even when they run, they take forever to finish a load. Sometimes they just quit in the middle and she has to start over. Service guys there ??? times during warranty period. Now the warranties have expired. Fortunately her old ones are still out in the barn, and once it stops snowing (she's in Idaho) she's going to have them brought back in.
I can remember when appliances never wore out they just looked it and fashion dictated. Now if you can get by 5 years your lucky.
And you could repair them yourself. Now it takes an associates' degree in computer science just to find out what's wrong!
I just reminded myself that the little 9 cubic foot chest freezer my folks had when I was a child in the '50s is in my barn. I was using it in Michigan up until I retired in 2009. I would be using it here at my retirement BOL if there were room for it in this tiny old farmhouse.
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