Posted on 07/02/2025 8:03:07 PM PDT by lowbridge
Other articles list the plane as a 12 year old 737-900ER...
Maybe. We won’t know until the investigators go through their deltas. (see what I did there?)
Thanks. I’ve been meaning to add a directory for ‘Why I Don’t Fly’ - So my twin can see why I’m not leaving the Clearwater, FL to fly to AZ. He can come here anytime however he gets here.
I’ll have to search around for examples I’ve already saved but no worries I’ll find them.
;-)
DEI maintenance?? 😩
😂
It’s always that guy.
Possibly dei maintenance.
I worked for the DoD supporting the Navy Warfighter maintaining jets for 30 years and I can tell you there was dei there before dei had a name.....how we never lost any air crew is beyond my understanding even to this day.
Sirius Lee, The DELTA between incompetent mechanics and one’s who had legitimate skills was staggering. 😁
If it’s Boeing, you have to ask how old is the aircraft, how many hours on it and WTF are the airlines maintenance crews actually doing?
“ This is most likely about poor maintenance.”
Bingo!
It only took 40 post for someone to make sense in this thread.
I grew up near Selfridge Air National Guard Base. F-4, F-16, A-10, KC-135, C-130’s flew overhead constantly. The sound of Freedom.
I now live near Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. Lots of helicopters overhead.
The Post has a very large airstrip but we rarely see airplanes. The flight path isn’t near us. I’ve heard they do a lot of training flights with AF1 there but haven’t ever seen that.
Did you have pieces of said aircraft falling from the sky, hitting your drive way?
Thant’s an immaterial question. I was responding to a comment about living near an airport with fighters overhead.
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That's been going on since time began in some form or other. We
need to make the best of our allotted time. Have a good one jmo
Yes and no. Yes obviously in the sense that all companies (especially plant managers) have had pressure to cut corners.
No in the sense of the utter shamelessness of the cheating and the apparent impossibility of holding any of the bigwigs accountable.
Boeing's executives, for example, should have had their cojones sued off by shareholders and should have been held criminally accountable for tolerating or even creating the processes that led to the 737 Max crashes. Instead, one test pilot was indicted for supposedly faking test results. He was acquitted, but probably bankrupted by legal costs.
This is actually vice: business leadership really thinks that squeezing more profit out is the only operating value, no matter the cost to others, and the rest of the elite agrees & sees nothing wrong.
“It only took 40 post for someone to make sense in this thread”
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When it comes to Boeing, the pack mentality is alive and well on FR. 😏
Don’t forget software to India.
Things fall off of aircraft fairly often. In fact there’s an acronym for it. TFOA. I remember having to file a report when it happened. Its usually something small like an access door..
If only we could get them to see that Boeing aircraft fly over 1M flights a day with no incident.
The power of the media works on even Freepers who should know better.
bttt
They’re the same way about cruising.
They think cruise ships are giant petri dishes and guarantee to get covid and norovirus.......but when I ask if they’ve ever been on one 95% say no.....a lot of ignorance on this forum.
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