[HN Gopher] United Airlines Jet Loses Wheel in Repeat of March I...
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United Airlines Jet Loses Wheel in Repeat of March Incident
Author : rntn
Score : 9 points
Date : 2024-07-08 21:01 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| rntn wrote:
| https://archive.ph/UK0E7
| taylodl wrote:
| Dang! Boeing airplanes are literally falling apart in normal
| operation! I'm not an aviation expert by any means, but are all
| these "little problems" indicative of a bigger problem at Boeing?
| Are we just getting lucky that so far the things that have been
| failing haven't had disastrous consequences? Can someone who
| knows about these things enlighten me?
| kelseyfrog wrote:
| > are all these "little problems" indicative of a bigger
| problem at Boeing?
|
| It depends on the exact way you phrase the question, but if it
| were "Is the rate of accidents per flight for Boeing aircraft
| significantly different between 2004-2014 and 2014-2024?" then
| you could run for example a one-sample poisson test against the
| data. The accident data is available from
| https://www.ntsb.gov/Pages/AviationQueryv2.aspx and I'm sure
| you could find a source for number of Boeing flights for each
| time period.
| bell-cot wrote:
| > a Boeing 757-200
|
| From a peek at Wikipedia, the airplane involved is probably 2+
| decades old.
|
| However tempting it might be to blame Boeing...it sounds far more
| like the techs at LoBidCo or Slipshod Maintenance Ltd. need to
| re-certify in Basic Lug Nut Tightening. Again.
| 10u152 wrote:
| Realistically it's a united flight and they're ultimately
| responsible for maintenance.
| pylua wrote:
| I wonder if employees across the board are silently
| reciprocating the lack of support from businesses by doing
| subpar work, given that corporations have started to run down
| employees in the name of expanding profits.
|
| It feels like a new phenomenon , and it feels very wide
| spread.
| BobaFloutist wrote:
| Either that, or tired, stressed, overworked, understaffed
| employees just naturally do worse work.
| nullindividual wrote:
| Obligatory VAS Aviation:
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| https://youtu.be/iPkPHR1KoF0
|
| And when the plane landed at it's destination, another United jet
| sucked in a bird on take off. At least there's no mechanic to
| blame for that.
| t0mas88 wrote:
| Probably only hit that bird with the wing.
|
| Tower asked "are you going to continue" and they replied. That
| sounds like low speed (high speed you wouldn't reply that
| quickly, focus on takeoff first). And at low speed if it went
| through the engine you would abort the takeoff.
|
| With most airlines the rule is "below 80kt stop for any warning
| or caution, above 80kt only abort for engine failure, fire, or
| unable to fly"
| throwway120385 wrote:
| The bird was a mechanic.
| exabrial wrote:
| blows my mind people post boeing after boeing problem online and
| all over reddit... but literally this stuff happens _every day_
| to all manufacturers.
| autoexec wrote:
| Which other manufacturers recently had a huge hole open up in
| the plane mid-flight? Which other manufacturers are guilty of
| conspiring to defraud the FAA? Which other manufacturers
| installed software that resulted in deadly crashes because
| pilots weren't even aware it existed and/or weren't trained on
| it?
|
| It's possible that there really are other manufacturers with
| these exact same problems, but either way it looks like Boeing
| has more than earned all the scrutiny and criticism they're
| getting. I'm all for naming and shaming other manufacturers
| that make deliberate choices to routinely put profits over
| human life though.
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