Anyone keeping a scorecard of these ?
Beginning to think that Boeing is the victim of a foreign industrial sabotage campaign. If a country like China is making huge investments to produce commercial aircraft, their efforts would be immensely aided by knocking Boeing off its traditional perch.
You only need the gear for taking off, it will always land wether you have landing gear or not.
But at least the maintenance crew was diverse!
...and another one down, another one down; another one bites the dust.....
DEI = DIE
I think “the minimum wage” has gotten a little too high.
The company is “Boeing” in name only since the merger. It’s really McDonnell Douglas. And the company’s “personality” and internal dealings are of the latter.
So glad I retired and don’t have to travel for business any more!
This does beg the question, “how did they change the design and manufacturing process of these planes?” The 737, in general, has a massive reliability record.
Or are we just becoming a nation generally in decline, where the old stuff is better than the new stuff?
4 since yesterday…
Good grief!! Not another one...
But the really important part is that the DEI goals were met in hiring the folks who built the landing gear.
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
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.
H1B migrant workers from India wrote the 737 MAX software.
