It seems like every week this year Boeing planes are adding to their list of debacles. Whether it’s a plane needing time spill jet fuel on CA schoolchildren to save its engine for landing. Or a smoke filling a Ryan Air cabin.
Airbus? Not so much right now...
Something is amiss at deep state Boeing at every level. Drain the Swamp.
“Whether it’s a plane needing time spill jet fuel on CA schoolchildren to save its engine for landing.”
Look, the emergency happened shortly after take-off, so the jet was too heavy to immediately land and had to dump fuel.
I was on an American flight out of Orlando and we had an emergency and dumped fuel to land safely.
When flying the F-15E I experienced an emergency after takeoff and had to dump fuel over St Louis.
Dumping fuel is no big deal, done all the time and no, it doesn’t come gushing down like rain. Nope.
Fuel dumped turns to mist and blown every which-way by winds aloft and the speed to the jet. Look, take a cup of water, stick your arm with the water outside the car and dump the water at, say, 60MPH. Watch it immediately turn to a mist, and that just at 60MPH. Now imagine you are at 350MPH and dump water/fuel. Poof. . .it turns to mist immediately.
I place no weight on any person that claims they had fuel dumped on them and they could smell it or see it or feel it. Nope, no way.
The ONLY time I ever smelled and felt something that was sprayed from the air was when I was in my car and a crop-duster flew over a field alongside the road I was on. The mist by that crop-duster making a pass, drifted over the road and it was like breathing a gawd-awful pesticide.
I despise Boeings “leadership,” for sure, no loyalty there. But dumping fuel is something most all commercial heavy jets have the capability to do, not just Boeing jets. And remember, the aircrew up-front fly the jet and do what they do based upon their best judgment. They don’t give a damn about anything else but getting down safely for ALL (which includes them). And aircrews don’t work for Boeing.
I like their commercial jets, especially when flying Business or First Class on an international flight.
Don’t like or trust their “leadership”