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Boeing desperately needs to end up like Takata: fined 250% of their annual EBIT, forcing them to go out of business due to inability to pay their fines, with their assets getting acquired by a random competitor.
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Yes the issues with the 737 Max 8 are significant. Major malfunctions are not the norm on airlines.
I don't think the lost tyre qualifies for a major malfunction, and the greenery excursion might well be pilot error. The engine fire I'm not sure about, it being a 21yo plane. Give the NTSB some time for proper reports...
a tyre dropping off in such a way that it could have easily killed several people doesn't count as a major malfunction to you?
Accounts on twitter claiming to have been on the airplane recounted that the aircraft went off the runway first, and that the gear failure, if there was one, happened after the plane left the runway. "737 Max suffers landing gear failure" is a sexy headline but it may be prudent to wait for a bit more information before jumping to too many conclusions - just because Boeing is fresh in everyone's minds. Wild speculati…
All three of the incidents referenced in the lede were United Airlines flights, and to my uninformed eyes seem just as likely to be maintenance issues as manufacturing ones. Boeing is in the title because it understandably gets a lot of clicks lately, but in this case I wouldn't be surprised if these are a sign of bad maintenance on United planes.
I'm not suggesting this wasn't UA's fault, I'm saying the nature of fault is complicated and currently unidentified.
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I don't think the lost tyre qualifies for a major malfunction, and the greenery excursion might well be pilot error. The engine fire I'm not sure about, it being a 21yo plane. Give the NTSB some time for proper reports...
> I don't think the lost tyre qualifies for a major malfunction, a tyre dropping off in such a way that it could have easily killed several people doesn't count as a major malfunction to you?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes the issues with the 737 Max 8 are significant. Major malfunctions are not the norm on airlines.
I don't think the lost tyre qualifies for a major malfunction, and the greenery excursion might well be pilot error. The engine fire I'm not sure about, it being a 21yo plane. Give the NTSB some time for proper reports...
> Boeing 737 MAX suffers landing gear failure, rolls off runway This title implies an order of events that is wrong. It exited the runway likely too fast, went down a small grass embankment, and only then did the [left] "Landing gear fail." See pictures here: https://avherald.com/h?article=515e3618&opt=0 The article's actual title is more helpful: > Boeing 737 Max 8 ran off Texas runway into grass This happens semi-r…
I had no idea air traffic control recordings were public! "Interesting recordings" are available for download here: https://www.liveatc.net/recordings.php Direct mp3 link for the incident in question: https://forums.liveatc.net/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1...
This was just a few hours ago too: Tire falls off United plane after takeoff from SFO https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/united-p...
How is it even still legal to operate 737 Max after all its failures? Is Boeing lobbying or something?