Delta Airlines' 757 loses its NOSE TIRES on the runway in Atlanta and is forced to abort flight while taxiing - in latest terrifying incident involving a Boeing jet

Daily Mail UK ^ | 16:59 EST, 23 January 2024 | By RACHEL BOWMAN

[Red Badger]

AVIATION Ping!>.............................

[Rummyfan]

What the hell is going on? This would seem to be a maintenance problem but yet another Boeing incident.

[newfreep]

The results of DEI/AffirmativeAction and ignoring merit & actual qualifications.

[MtnClimber]

How are those transgender mechanics working out?

[gitmo]

What am I supposed to do with all these extra lug nuts?

[moovova]

Will we find out the maintenance people are holding drag shows in the employee break room at Hartsfield?

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

Inflating tires is racist.

[omni-scientist]

This sounds more like a maintenance issue than anything in the Boeing design or manufacturing plant.

[telescope115]

Or maybe there’s a connection…..

[moovova]

"What am I supposed to do with all these extra lug nuts?"

Ok...it's early in the comments, but I'm designating you winner of the thread.

[Yo-Yo]

What the hell is going on? This would seem to be a maintenance problem but yet another Boeing incident.

Yes, Boeing has had its issues recently, but I'm getting sick and tired of headline writers blaming every single maintenance issue on the fact that the airplane was a Boeing.

Some facts: For long haul jets, there's only two manufacturers - Boeing and Airbus, who each have roughly 50% of the market. So any problem will be a 50-50 shot that it's a Boeing aircraft.

The Boeing 757 was last produced in 2004, so the NEWEST 757 in existence is 20 years old.

This was a maintenance issue on a 20+ year old aircraft, and had nothing whatsoever to do with a flawed Boeing design.

[Red Badger]

They probably are.....................

https://youtu.be/a1eOmsEG01k

[Tench_Coxe]

Sounds like more of a maintenance issue (Delta).

[EEGator]

This is now starting to seem deliberate…

[EEGator]

Great for slingshot ammo.

[RckyRaCoCo]

It is...sort of like blaming airbus for this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSZgDsSA2qc

[blitz128]

Even though I wasn’t a crew chief, on deployments we often worked flightline, and I ran crews that fueled aircraft and did tire and brake changes, things CC, really weren’t thrilled in doing after the 1 millionths time.

We loved it, gave us something to do

These are not difficult tasks, but if done wrong can have catastrophic results.
Too much fuel, not enough fuel, CG wrong….

Aircraft tires don’t have lug nuts, they have one nut and the tech data is very clear. Something like this should never happen, and certainly points to a bigger problem.
But hey as long as pronouns are correct I guess all is good /s

[lgjhn23]

“..The results of DEI/AffirmativeAction and ignoring merit & actual qualifications...”

^THIS^
Now, is not a good time to fly or use any mechanical means that use DEI (DIE) to maintain them. It’s like a plague.

[subterfuge]

The was just lost. No way of ever knowing how that happened.