Passengers on Houston to New York United Airlines flight evacuated after plane catches fire on runway

nypost.com ^ | February 2, 2025 | Isabel Keane

[FlingWingFlyer]

Geez.

[BobL]

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.

[GMMC0987]

Boeing relieved it wasn’t one of their planes.

[MinorityRepublican]

Boeing relieved it wasn’t one of their planes.

Then I have nothing to add to this thread.

[No name given]

Thankfully no one died this time.

[EBH]

And there we go with another one...

[monkeyshine]

I know someone in Houston. I hope her hair caught on fire.

[bitt]

p

[Owen]

Video of the Pennsylvania crash shows a fire before the impact.

[vaskypilot]

Yes. The Power plant manufacturer is CFM.

[nwrep]

One is an incident, two is a coincidence, three is a?

[Secret Agent Man]

Wonder if debris got sucked in and caused it, or if it was poor maintenance practices, or both.

[I-ambush]

To any historians on the forum: did failure to maintain roads and ports precede the fall of Rome?

[RoosterRedux]

Well said.

[Bob434]

flying is still safer than driving, BUT, for how much longer?

[chuck allen]

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.

[Rappini]

It usually happens in three’s and this is the third. I could be wrong though.

[RoosterRedux]

I'm not a historian, but I like to dig and read.

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.

[Larry Lucido]

Maybe someone was lying in their pants caught on fire.