Does this mean you won't fly Boeing?
Posted on 09/23/2005 1:46:47 AM PDT by konaice
It's just common sense. The "fail-safe" position is one that allows the aircraft to land safely.
No, just the 737's that had stuck rudders which caused a few crashes.
No fatalities due to this gear problem, Airbus sent out a directive for a fix a few years ago, if the airlines didn't do the fix, its their fault.
Just as an aside, the Boeing design of nosegear will not allow this to happen. Some cams internal to the nosegear oleo strut center the nosewheels as the strut extends on takeoff and do not allow a steering input until the strut is again compressed on the ground.
Does this mean you won't fly Boeing?
I remember the 737 rudder redesign. Manufacturing engineers had to work OT for months to update the drawings to satisfy the FAA under threat of grounding the fleet. The FAA doesn't give Boeing any slack. How can Airbus get away with that design flaw? Does it really need to take a crash before any action is taken?
At least your list shows that most of the contributing countries are our real allies in the War On Terror.
I'll just have to hold my nose as I strut through that french door.
BTW, why does you list have all countries or states, and then "Wichita"?
I was really disappointed when I heard they gave away the wing ---a core compentency. Boeing makes only one part now, the empennage?
Obviously, the real art is in snapping the pieces together so they don't fall apart.
Ask Boeing, its their chart.
Airbus makes good planes, so does Boeing, but silly nationalistic rants against the French and hating an airplane because of it are...well...silly.
I remember back in March an A310's rudder breaking clean off. Fortunately, the plane landed safely. Has a redesign been ordered?
I remember in November 2001 an A300 fin breaking clean off. 265 people died. The FAA chose to blame the pilots.
The FAA doesn't give Boeing any slack.
No kidding.
Understand your point, but whatever happened to "Buy American" and keep U.S. $$$ at home? We have a hard enough time keeping our own citizens employed. Who is going to pay for the war and now the two hurricanes???
When you make your reservations, tell them you are on a salt free diet.
With special diets they have, for b-fast: a nice fruit, melon selection. For lunch: generally a small steak, and for dinner a large dinner salad with chicken. Oh, and BTW, the salt and pepper is wrapped up with your utensils.
While your seat mates are eating the microwaved eggs, you are having a great fruit bowl.
Your math is wrong, and even though you made a correction in a subsequent post its STILL wrong, because you did not read the article.
The key point is this design flaw SHOULD have been corrected long ago, and AFAIK no other manufacturer uses a "fail dangerous" design.
The point you missed in the article is:
A Canadian study issued last year documented 67 incidents of nose-landing-gear failures on Airbus 319, 320 and 321 aircraft worldwide since 1989.
I've done that and you're right, much better food.
Sounds like a good idea to me.
I don't know, it blows my mind. There are at least three Airbuses that have crashed under mysterious circumstances - such as the one out of Kennedy three or so years ago. The FAA has done nothing with those.
Isn't that strange? What is the JAA? Maybe Airbus is under their jurisdiction? You would think if they were in the U.S., the FAA would have control. I know how paranoid Boeing is of the FAA. Could there be some bias against Boeing?
Designed under the watchful eye of Boeing. I don't fly Airbus ever. I've made it this far even with a few previous trips on Airbus,well over 250,000 miles. Oh yea and I don't fly DC-10's either.
The French deserve all of our scorn - mostly because they are silly and pompous.
YES!
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