Because Boeing were on such a good streak already…

  • athos77@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    Clickbait. The FAA lists the plane number as N672DL and a quick flight registry check says that plane was made in 1992. This is a maintenance issue with Delta.

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      6 months ago

      The title is “Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff” and that’s exactly what happened. That’s not clickbait, since it’s not deceptive, sensationalized, or otherwise misleading. It’s just news.

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        6 months ago

        The only reason it’s being reported is because of the other Boeing incident. And if they were trying to be accurate, the headline would’ve read “Nose wheel falls off Delta airplane waiting for takeoff”. It’s clickbait.

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          6 months ago

          I’m pretty sure nearly every such incident is reported on in the news.

          Now, is it being spread far more due to everything else going on? Sure. But I don’t see why this headline would be weird if nothing else happened with Boeing recently.

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          6 months ago

          There were passengers on the flight. I would feel highly uncomfortable after this incident to be on another plane of Delta.

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          6 months ago

          I think you overestimate how much the average traveler who may die when parts fall off cares or is parsing whether it’s Boeing’s mistake or Delta’s. What I’m taking from the headline (we need to get our shit together before a bunch of people die) is different than what you seem to be worried about people taking from the headline.

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      6 months ago

      Isn’t Boeing QA supposed to inspect the plane and sign it off after maintenance?

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        6 months ago

        No, they make the guides but don’t monitor them, which would be too costly (so much employees needed) and bureaucratic

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          6 months ago

          I thought that there were specific “critical” operations that would require them (Delta, Boeing, or both) to record an entry in Boeing’s Collaborative Manufacturing Execution Systems (CMES) database. But I’m discovering this field, so I don’t know if they make a difference in this context between before and after delivery, and if the normal plane maintenance is covered by the same processes or not, and that’s why I’m asking, and not stating.

          However, if one doesn’t know more than me, stating isn’t more correct.

          • Aatube@kbin.social
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            6 months ago

            Well, they probably register repairs in databases, but they definitely don’t send people to check every single thing. Airlines also might contract Boeing to do some bigger repairs.

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              6 months ago

              I don’t see how a repair that causes the nose of a plane to “fall off” would not be considered a “bigger repair”…

              I’m not saying that Boeing would be involved in the replacement of a tire from the landing gear. But something major enough to make the actual nose of the plane to literally fall off? That sounds important enough to me.

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          6 months ago

          Because of regulations, because of contracts, because of a myriad reasons I won’t waste my time listing here.

          The point is that they have been in business for over a century, that the aerospace industry is heavily regulated, and so I somewhat expect them to have processes in place and responsibilities to make sure the planes are delivered and remain according to their design specification.

          And you don’t strike me as someone who knows more than me (a total newbie) on the matter, so maybe we stop wasting each other’s time on a pointless argument about shit that is absolutely beyond us both. Yeah?