Posted on 07/08/2024 3:44:31 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Officials at Denver International Airport said United Flight 1001 -- a Boeing 757-200 -- landed at DIA just before 11 a.m. after a wheel on the rear landing gear fell off the plane upon takeoff at LAX. No injuries were reported among the 174 passengers or seven crewmembers.
United says an investigation is now ongoing to determine what caused the wheel to fall off. The wheel has since been recovered in Los Angeles.
Allen Stubblefield was traveling from southern California to Iowa with a connecting flight in Denver. He flies for work often and has never been part of an emergency landing. He said the takeoff felt completely normal but bout halfway through the flight, the pilot got on the PA to say they'd be doing an emergency landing into Denver.
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Point made
Last year we drove from Sacramento to Denver, visited, stayed with family and friends for about 10 days, and then drove back. We took our time, driving as far as we wanted each day, stopping wherever we wanted, whenever we desired. With an average of six hours driving, we had the most relaxing, fun, eventful trip. The idea of sitting in a cramped, crowded plane never occurred to us.
Driving across the Great Salt Lake Basin was amazing. Not once did we see an EV, until we were in Salt Lake City. Same for Wyoming. Beautiful drive. Hours and hours of amazing country, and not an EV in sight. Also, you can see the loooong trains pulling the containers with all the stuff we want and need. Some of the trains had double stacked containers. Later, we would see all the trucks that delivered all those containers to their ultimate destination. The idea of forcing all those trains, and even more trucks, be EV is ludicrous.
People can do what they want. TSA is annoying to deal with at the airport. It may be more comfortable to drive.
But it's much more dangerous to drive on the highway.
So it's silly to pretend that driving is safer than flying.
I am.
I just retired after 43 years in acft
maintenance. This is not on Boeing. Changing wheels and brakes is basic line maintenance stuff, but you can screw it up if you don’t follow the manual. I worked for UAL 26 years ago and never heard of anything like this.
I am well aware.
A friend of mine works maintenance for United.
But this is but a small part of what I am thinking about.
Many things that have happened lately are directly linked to Boeing.
Nor I. While I am concerned about the integrity of the aircraft, my primary concern is the number of passengers that are leftists. I don't like to mix with those types.
The 757-200 is probably 25 years old.
Wheels schmeels, we got more.
United and Boeing are woke and dei
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Exactly. And that capitulation to the DEI nonsense culture also opens the door to saboteurs among the several million undocumented migrants known to be in this country at the invitation of the Biden regime.
Just injecting a bit of common sense.
I fly all the time and worry far more about driving.
Just playing the odds.
“ I was about to say the same thing. Is someone out to destroy Boeing?”
Yes
Why else would they be blamed for a tire coming off a 40 year-old airplane?
“ There are 45,000 flights *per day* in the U.S.., handling 2.9 million passengers.”
Right. And 2.89999M of them had a perfectly trouble free flight. That’s amazing really.
The wheels are coming off everything these days, just like Biden’s campaign against Trump and the democrat party.
I haven’t flown since 9-11.
I don’t trust the government to keep me safe, not anywhere.
Likely, but...
The manufacturer, in this case Boeing, determines the maintenance schedules for the various components.
Boeing oversees recalls for components. The maintenance teams aren't going to swap out parts that haven't been correctly flagged for recall.
Boeing oversees the contracts for replacement spares that are only available through Boeing. Much like the "dealer item only" parts, the maintenance teams can only source certain spare parts through Boeing.
Some of the original parts from Boeing have been counterfeit.
https://gizmodo.com/boeing-planes-fake-titanium-faa-investigation-1851541451
While the spec'd component might have been rated for x hours or flights, the counterfeit one might last years and then fail before the maintenance teams detect anything wrong with it.
An original component may have a shortened lifespan if a later change to a connected component is modified. (Component A is rated for x flights but if attached component B is replaced with an upgraded version, component A now has a shortened lifespan). The maintenance schedule on component A won't change unless the engineers at Boeing identify it. Changing the weight of components to any significant amount will certainly impact the landing gear.
True, but the bearings might have come from Boeing a week ago.
All right. That is darn good.
Well it probably made no difference as long as there was no fire in the wheel well.
Git ‘er Done.
The rear landing gear have plenty-o-tires-and-brakes.
Likely some spare planes @ Denver. Likely repair mechanics and spare hanger slots
I did once see a brake rebuild on a plane at a gateway while we could watch.
I boarded. “It’s only the brakes”
I wonder if something is wrong with Boeing’s maintenance procedures.
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You wonder??
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