Posted on 02/02/2025 9:39:58 AM PST by lowbridge
United Airlines flight from Houston to New York had to be evacuated Sunday morning after the airplane caught on fire during takeoff.
Terrified passengers could be heard panicking in footage obtained by Fox 26. Flames burst out of one of the airplane’s wings as the aircraft began to roll forward for take off.
United Airlines Flight 1382, an Airbus A320, aborted its takeoff from the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, due to a “reported engine issue” just after 8:30 a.m., the FAA said in a statement.
Passengers fled to the runway and were taken by the terminal by bus, the FAA added.
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Geez.
More DEI problems, most likely in ground maintenance. Luckily this one didn’t kill anyone.
How do I know it’s DEI? Easy, unless they prove otherwise, then it’s DEI causing the problem. It’s time to stop giving companies (and the government) a free ride on DEI...make them PROVE otherwise.
Boeing relieved it wasn’t one of their planes.
Then I have nothing to add to this thread.
Thankfully no one died this time.
And there we go with another one...
I know someone in Houston. I hope her hair caught on fire.
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Video of the Pennsylvania crash shows a fire before the impact.
Yes. The Power plant manufacturer is CFM.
One is an incident, two is a coincidence, three is a?
Wonder if debris got sucked in and caused it, or if it was poor maintenance practices, or both.
To any historians on the forum: did failure to maintain roads and ports precede the fall of Rome?
Well said.
flying is still safer than driving, BUT, for how much longer?
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
Is a logical fallacy that occurs when someone assumes that one event caused another simply because the first event happened before the second.
It usually happens in three’s and this is the third. I could be wrong though.
Yes, the failure to maintain roads and ports was one of many contributing factors to the fall of Rome. The Roman Empire relied heavily on its infrastructure for military movement, trade, and communication. As the empire declined, economic troubles, corruption, and resource depletion led to neglect of roads, bridges, and ports.
The failure to maintain roads and ports was primarily an effect of Rome’s decline, but it also exacerbated the collapse, creating a feedback loop. It wasn't the root cause, but it was both a symptom and an accelerant of the empire's downfall.
Gibbon’s Decline and Fall touches on the neglect of infrastructure, but he does not frame it as a primary cause.
Maybe someone was lying in their pants caught on fire.
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