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No correlation between non-functional displays on passenger seats & possible engine failures etc.
They could both point to poor maintenance by the airline
I'm a system engineer - the hardware kind, not the more familiar network kind - and that is my job.
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Pro tip from an absolute rando: don’t bother with any source of breaking news. Read a weekly paper that summarises the important stuff. If something is truly pressing, you’ll hear about it from friends or coworkers.
Suggestions for some sources to read? I know the Economist, anything else others would recommend?
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The Boeing Dreamliner link was marked as dupe... can you please make that the main one? This link doesn't even contain the plane type
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I was just watching something the other day about how jet engines have gotten more efficient and powerful over the last 50 years where commercial airliners really only need 2 engines. All 2 engine aircraft also have to be able to operate on 1 engine as well if there is a failure. One has to wonder if this was a bird strike incident on both engines that maybe having 4 engines would have allowed the plane to circle bac…
I don't think there's ever been a double-bird-strike incident, though. And what dual engine failures I can think of are due to failure of a shared system (e.g. fuel exhaustion, c.f. Gimli Glider). [Edit: yeah, yeah, forgot the Tom Hanks movie, sue me. I do wish folks would respond to the much more important point below, which isn't invalidated by a single data point though.] Constructing solutions for multiple-mode f…
But in the video of the plane taking off and crashing, there's no clear, obvious, or tell-tale "poof" of bird turning into exhaust as there often is in bird strikes.
That doesn't rule it out.
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> I'm just reciting what's been shown in videos Of unknown provenance, with unknown visual artefacts, et cetera . Even if completely legit, with context and thus chain of causation obscured to the point that discerning ultimate and proximate causes is impossible.
Some people trust their own thinking to judge what they see. We know it called mayday and then lost communication. It also stopped transmitting GPS data. Looking at this it likely lost all electric power. The electric power comes from generators driven by the turbines. If you lose both turbines you lose electricity. You also lose the hydraulic system so you can not get in the gear or change flaps. Occam's razor check…
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No, they’re not. Of the 20 largest airports in the US, all but one of them have homes and offices surrounding them. The one that doesn’t is Denver, that’s mostly only because Denver’s airport is relatively new and the development hasn’t reached it yet.
that's actually not true and it's very easy to disprove because SFO is in the top 20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_i... . I'm sure this is an airport most of the people on this site are familiar with but just in case you aren't, it's on reclaimed land in the San Francisco bay.
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Just read The Economist. Only comes out weekly!
Yep, I subscribe to the Le Monde weekly, 10 printed pages newspaper delivered home. Enough to know what's what and done.
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Unfortunately for everyone's brains, this turned out to basically not be true with COVID- only real news fans (or people with expertise in the relevant science, but there are way less of those) were remotely aware that offices probably weren't going to be closed for only two weeks[0]. If you followed the news closely you stocked up on toilet paper when there were runs on it in Hong Kong, before there were runs on it…
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It's also possible to just not read news altogether.
Good way to cure a news addiction: Read news from years ago, see how much of it was actually accurate and meaningful in retrospect.