I think I’m banning myself from flying on Boeing planes.
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2024
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Some people on Lemmy and around the Internet with aviation knowledge are saying that older models are fine. Ones from the days before Boeing learned they can get away with cheaping out. I'm sure with a search you can find a list.
I think you’re right. In one of the articles I posted, an apparent Boeing insider demanded exiting a 737 Max upon finding it was that specific aircraft model that he boarded.
But the problem is not just with the nuts and bolts. A PBC documentary did a deep probe on the #737max. We have to accept that engineers make mistakes. But what I do NOT accept is managers making the deliberate calculated decision to coverup the mistakes to the extent of proactively consciously deciding not to train Boeing pilots on the KNOWN flaws and idiosyncracies to save money. Lives were lost because of these management decisions -- which are the same managers who lives depend on w.r.t. the older Boeing aircraft as well. These decisions also lead to under-trained Boeing pilots.
The 737 Max will probably go through copious scrutiny. But even if they make every nut, bolt, and sensor quite safe, that does nothing for the shitty infrastructure of right-wing business people who will continue working to pinch every penny for their shareholders.
I would love to see a dated line graph of the historic and current pay rate of Boeing test pilots with annotations on each incident.
Yeah fucking hell same
So I'm against flying in the Max family of planes. The FAA or whoever absolutely need to re-certify that group of planes, they diverge too much from the original platform, and clearly have issues with the flight controls. Added to that are production woes in general, so new planes are questionable.
In this case, as with all the news this week, the issue seems to be with United Airlines' maintenance. Planes have regular maintenance checks that range from mechanical observations of all plane systems to full teardown, inspection, and rebuild of the plane. If an airline is doing proper checks, parts should not be falling off of the plane
Stay away from United until they get their act together. It can be done. Alaska Airlines completely turned around after the 261 disaster. However, I doubt we'll see any changes from United until people die
I don't think it's until people die- it'll be until United takes the blame. Right now, everyone's pointing at Boeing, and that lets United off the hook.
That said, I'm not even sure that will matter. I swore off United a decade ago when they repeatedly battered their paying customers, but that didn't seem to be an issue for them.
it should be news when boeing doesn't have problems.
Yeah but we wouldn’t want positive news that promotes them.. so the headline would need to be “A full week passed without a Boeing problem… could this be a turning point?”
more like "what are they covering up?"
indeed.. even better!
