Posted on 03/08/2024 8:30:48 AM PST by janetjanet998
United Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 suffers gear failure upon landing at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas
Good grief!! Not another one...
Boeing Chief Engineer, Howard McKenzie, all around smarty pants:
https://www.boeing.com/company/bios/howard-mckenzie
But the really important part is that the DEI goals were met in hiring the folks who built the landing gear.
This may be part of it but I think another reason is people just don’t give a crap anymore. The American work ethic is dead.
If the US military stops ordering/buying [large carrier] equipment from Boeing, their other option is to go to AirBus.
A wholly owned subsidiary of EU/WEF.
But not entirely DEI as it is now called.
IMHO, we got lucky and most of the "diverse" hires were on average, as good or better than previous hires, excepting a few.
DEI and the hiring of business degree grads IMHO is probably affecting quality throughout all sectors.
Up until 20-30 years ago most of industry and transportation in the USA was run by engineering degreed management,
As they retired, business degreed people were hired and hired more of their ilk to take their places.
These drones have zero understanding of proper maintenance or anything else technical.
They only understand the bottom line.
Not "would I be comfortable with this part on a plane I am flying in", but "can we get it out the door".
JIT (Just In Time) and investors pushing for the highest returns on investment are also part of the picture.
Fortunately, about 15 years ago apparently the grand poobahs in the company I worked for must have figured this out.
Bright young engineers were being hired instead of business degree types and quality came back.
“This may be part of it but I think another reason is people just don’t give a crap anymore. The American work ethic is dead.”
Can’t disagree with that.
Scanning a few more articles it looks like it will be a mechanical issue or operator error. Nobody has been reported as hurt while the airplane was taxing after landing..
I was planning a potential trip back east…my buddy sent me a clip of a united wheel falling off just after takeoff. And if I recall a pilot on the taxiway noticed the wheel roll off the plane in front of him before takeoff. That plane had to go back to the hangar. And of course that door plug that blew off.
There’s some seriously lax safety oversight going on. I can’t explain it. People are getting lazy?
https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1766109097898721336
It would appear that #UA2477 suffered an excursion into the grass in Houston as it attempted to turn off the runway onto the taxiway after landing from Memphis. https://flightradar24.com/data/flights/ua2477#344859ac
China does have a competitor to the 737 called the C919.
The 737 is a workhorse. Generally has been reliable - southwest uses them exclusively and they fly fast and hard, turnaround quickly and go again many times a day. There are so many of them out there that the odds are when there is an issue it’s likely to be a 737.
China has been shut out of aviation for now both here and in Europe but use the C919 over in Asia. But Airbus has pretty good quality. The A320 seems to fly smoother and quieter to me, as a passenger. We haven’t heard them having the same safety issues lately but there are fewer of them especially among US carriers and they are relatively newer (fewer miles).
So if there is some foul play, or just sloppy maintenance, this could benefit the C919 and A320 in new sales worldwide.
The Affirmative Action Pilots have begun their assault on safety in the skies, or airports. DEI could come crashing down on our heads any second.
So what we don't know -- can't know -- is whether these sorts of incidents genuinely are becoming more common, or if the noise level on them only recently has got high enough that the press is reporting the most minor of them.
The 737 Max in particular has become a cause célèbre. Every time one of them blows a tire on landing, or has a brake catch fire, which would have passed unnoticed before the computer glitch-caused crashes made the news, now it's a "front page above the fold" story.
There's an old aviation axiom, "Take-offs are optional. Landings are mandatory."
Oh I see this was a Max 8. That Max plane was a mistake. Boeing wanted to use more fuel efficient engines, which is understandable - it saves money to airlines and pleases the climate Gaia worshippers. But the engines are bigger and heavier. Rather than design a new fuselage they just adjusted the position of the engines and some wing enhancements. It was a shortcut to get it through FAA regulations, and also so they didn’t have to build a new fuselage factory. But you just can’t have it all. It’s less stable overall which is why they had to make a bunch of other little tweaks - not to mention that software issue that caused 2 total catastrophes.
Another united flight lose a wheel after takeoff the other day.
>> You only need the gear for taking off, it will always land wether you have landing gear or not.
And a good landing is any landing you walk away from afterwards, yes? 🤣
That's probably true. It just wasn't Boeing's fault. This time...
Same here, in a CH-53. Those things were always flying hydraulic leaks. Old story - helicopters don’t fly - they beat the air into submission.
H1B migrant workers from India wrote the 737 MAX software.
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