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Boeing 777 loses tire while taking off from SF, crushing cars on the ground

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Re: Boeing 777 loses tire while taking off from SF, crushing cars on the ground

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Post by anon-sre-srm »

WorkerBee28474 wrote: post #32
ro_bit wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why did the plane go all the way to LAX rather than landing back at SFO? It clearly seemed to be considered serious since there were emergency vehicles by the runway as a precaution. Is it easier to divert to LAX rather than land back at SFO in this situation?

If you don't have to land with a full load of fuel it's better not to. And there was no reason to think that the landing would go wrong, because the tires are redundant.

Fuel dump or burn it off by circling. Going elsewhere would be inconvenient to passengers unless they had a replacement plane and/or crew in LAX which was likely. Unless you're Delta flight 89 and then you dump fuel over populated areas at low altitude.

Re: Boeing 777 loses tire while taking off from SF, crushing cars on the ground

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Post by SAI_Peregrinus »

NKosmatos wrote: post #23

Boeing shares seem unaffected by this event. Poor Boeing, this is what happens when you lose your “soul” as a company and you start chasing margins, profit, dividends and you don’t pay attention to you people and your product. Have seen it happening in many big companies, and I don’t understand why intelligent/educated/competent CEOs don’t see this :-(

Tires are a wear item. They get replaced often, by the airline maintenance personnel. On this >20 year old plane, it's far more likely to be United's issue than Boeing's. I'd expect United to see a share price hit if anyone did.

Re: Boeing 777 loses tire while taking off from SF, crushing cars on the ground

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Post by Cacti »

edgyquant wrote: post #86
Cacti wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Think about doing an investigation and writeup for every dent and fender bender in the nation, in addition to the major accidents. That’s essentially what you’re looking at, but for aircraft. Across the world, and all the millions of people and ways in which all types of aircraft are used, big, small, old, young, immaculately maintained, beat to shit, etc.

This is a changing of the goalpost and regardless we’ve had doors fly off just in the last month.

You don’t even know what game we are playing.
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