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Boeing 737 MAX suffers landing gear failure, rolls off runway

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Re: Boeing 737 MAX suffers landing gear failure, rolls off runway

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Post by mihaaly »

Jasper_ wrote: post #8

> Video footage captured the moment when the tire from the Boeing 777-200 came off the rear landing gear seconds after the plane took off. > Records show the plane was delivered from Boeing to United 22 years ago. This is a 20-year old 777, not a 737 MAX. Where did the title change come from?

>> The Boeing 737 Max 8, carrying 160 passengers and six crew, was landing at George Bush intercontinental airport on Friday morning when it “left the pavement and entered the grass” while exiting the runway for the gate, airport officials said in an interview. <<

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Post by jaycroft »

Jasper_ wrote: post #8

> Video footage captured the moment when the tire from the Boeing 777-200 came off the rear landing gear seconds after the plane took off. > Records show the plane was delivered from Boeing to United 22 years ago. This is a 20-year old 777, not a 737 MAX. Where did the title change come from?

There are two separate incidents here in the same article. Yesterday a tire was filmed falling off a 777 that was 20 years old. The 737 Max that rolled off the tarmac happened today.

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Post by lumost »

behnamoh wrote: post #5

How is it even still legal to operate 737 Max after all its failures? Is Boeing lobbying or something?

permanently grounding 737 MAX would be tantamount to killing Boeing's commercial aviation products (and possibly the company itself).

Unfortunately, this would have the side effect of destroying America's only viable commercial aviation company - there likely would not be a successor without heavy government bailouts.

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Post by jprete »

behnamoh wrote: post #5

How is it even still legal to operate 737 Max after all its failures? Is Boeing lobbying or something?

That's an extremely expensive and impractical solution. EDIT: By "impractical" I mean that it doesn't help safety much, but does totally wreck US air travel for several years.

Re: Boeing 737 MAX suffers landing gear failure, rolls off runway

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Post by usr1106 »

Wheels are always weak spots of airplane. Incidents will happen. The same with compressor stalls.

General media just like to produce headlines...

Of course a door plug or manoevering system should not become a weak spot. And systematic failures of gears would also need attention. But a gear of a 737, a wheel of a 777 and an engine stall of yet another type have nothing to do with each other.

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