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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

This is the company that got us to the Moon. A great example of how quarterly thinking and refusing to invest in engineering can destroy any business.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I look forward to the investigation results on this one. I’m not afraid of flying but this would terrify me.

How the heck did a relatively new plane get a compromised fuselage like this??

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's Boeing. Look at what their corrupt money grubbing executives did with the max 8. It won't stop until they're bankrupt.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

They won't go bankrupt. They sell too much to the government and have retooled themselves as a lobbying group. Eventually they will get a big government bailout and economists will tell us how great that is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

They're "too big to fail" for us gov

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I saw a pilot reply earlier and he said that it's an emergency exit designed for larger passenger configurations of the plane but should have been properly plugged in this configuration.....I think it's time to pull McDonnell Douglas out of Boeing and start again.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

We saved a lot of money by changing out bolts and screws to zinc.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Alaska Airlines has grounded all Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after a window and a chunk of fuselage blew out on one of the aircraft in mid-air shortly after takeoff.

An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 had to make an emergency landing shortly after taking off from Portland, Oregon, on Friday.

“Alaska Airlines flight 1282 from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California, experienced an incident this evening soon after departure,” the company said.

The plane was diverted after rising to 16,000ft (4,875 metres) about six minutes after taking off at 5.07 pm on Friday, according to flight tracking data from the FlightAware website.

That particular Boeing 737 Max 9 rolled off the assembly line and received its certification two months ago, according to online FAA records.

The Max is the newest version of Boeing’s venerable 737, a twin-engine, single-aisle plane frequently used on US domestic flights.


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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

All US based max9s are now grounded until a 4-8hr inspection is complete lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

This has to be corrupt as fuck.

You have to believe if this wasn't an American company then they wouldn't be able to fly again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Thing is, the max8 and max9 planes are horrible.

I'm okay if they're grounded for good. Or, fuck that; let us choose the airplane we want/will fly in. Tickets on the max8/max9 will go through the floor, and ideally then the airline will have to offload that trash.