Sigh, something that would be much less likely to even make it to HN if not for the fact that everyone is hungry to find the next thread to post their pre-canned “damn MBAs!!” rant on. It’s not a Max.
Does the Max have different MBAs behind it?
Boeing 737 crashes during take-off in Senegal
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#13As ever, best to wait and see. Pilot error is a thing, poor maintenance is a thing. This isn’t the MAX variant Boring has had so much trouble with.
Ironic to see this considering planes could land and takeoff by themselves since 60's and the only reason why it's not all of them that can do this is because of greed.
>the only reason why it's not all of them that can do this is because of greed
???
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#14Sigh, something that would be much less likely to even make it to HN if not for the fact that everyone is hungry to find the next thread to post their pre-canned “damn MBAs!!” rant on. It’s not a Max.
Does the Max have different MBAs behind it?
Some of the MBAs probably weren’t born when this specific plane was made. 737-300s stopped being built twenty four years ago.
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#15Sigh, something that would be much less likely to even make it to HN if not for the fact that everyone is hungry to find the next thread to post their pre-canned “damn MBAs!!” rant on. It’s not a Max.
Does the Max have different MBAs behind it?
This has different MBAs behind it because it’s a 30 year old airplane and the design is even older.
The first 737 Max flew in 2016 and most of them are even younger than that, so it’s we’re talking about very different management teams.
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#16Is that photo possibly the most unrepresentative stock photo of a working 737 aircraft that they could find that actually has a 737 in it?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ironic to see this considering planes could land and takeoff by themselves since 60's and the only reason why it's not all of them that can do this is because of greed.
>the only reason why it's not all of them that can do this is because of greed ???
L-1011
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#18Unsurprisingly, it's an old airframe (built 1994), operated by a state-owned African carrier: rarely a recipe for good maintenance. It's quite unlikely that Boeing is in any way to blame for this.
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#19https://avherald.com/h?article=51867a11 > the crew rejected takeoff due to a hydraulic defect but veered left off the runway. The aircraft came to a stop on soft ground next to the Presidential Pavillion (about 2000 meters/6000 feet down the runway), the left wing briefly caught fire. All occupants evacuated via slides
question for a book I'm writing: how easy would planes be to mess up in such a way no issues appear until plane takes off?
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#20Can the BBC reign in its news headline writers and reverse a fairly recent (5-10 years?) policy of juicing up what was 'unbiased' news? But in fact, I have a rose-tinted view of the BBC so I should just reign in my reactions instead.
What exactly is "juiced up" about "Boeing 737 crashes during take-off in Senegal"? I'd be hard put to craft a more neutral/factual/boring summary of what just happened.
Update: Apparently "crash" is misleading here since the plane was never airborne, it aborted takeoff but veered off the runway and likely hit something since the wing caught fire.