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Years earlier, she had asked a boss if he would let his children fly on a plane with the litany of flaws and non-conformances he was urging her to “pencil-whip”: “Cindy, none of these planes are staying in America, they’re all going overseas,” he retorted, much to her horror.

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[-] [email protected] 122 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

Boeing…Boeing…Gone!

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

Boeing: the sound a plane makes when it hits the ground

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

or when the front falls off midflight.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure they don't usually do that.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Only sometimes! And the door goes pop! Too!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

and thier spacecraft is haunted, making those mysterious sounds while in flight.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'll tell you, that's not supposed to happen.

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[-] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago

Sounds like the planes Boeing sent to India had foreign object debris rattling around inside conduits.

That’s a ticking time bomb for random electrical failures, such as both engines shutting down right after takeoff.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

If it was from electrical failure, it'd be more likely to happen in the pilot's thrust control than simultaneously in both engines. But usually if both engines fail after take off....my money is on fuel system failure.

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[-] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago

A rich executive put the lives of others below penny pinching profits?

I'm shook. 🫩

[-] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago

I recently had the privilege of cleaning up code by a big India out sourcing company. The code quality was some of the worst I have seen in my 30 years of programming. Then I found [this article] (https://www.industryweek.com/supply-chain/article/22027840/boeings-737-max-software-outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers) about the same company writing code for Boeing.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

that was a horrifying read as a software engineer but also as an Indian.

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[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago

I am genuinely curious why on Earth airline companies are still buying Boeing planes. The last 5-10 crashes all included their planes and it is a mystery why their shares didn't tank more.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Because the stock market is a fucking scam.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It's gambling for the rich and people who want to be rich.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

It's gambling for the people who want to be rich. It's a bank and tax haven for those who are already rich.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I mean, yes, but what does that have to do with their question?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It is a mystery why their shares didn’t tank more

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Because what are you gonna do? Not fly?

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yes, that would be the sensible thing to do. Too bad that people are not sensible.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Introducing Space X expedited flights from Florida to anywhere in the world... Remote pickup not included in conflict regions.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Airbus has a backlog of 8000 jets. Order one today and it will take a decade before it arrives. So airliners basically have to keep their current fleet flying.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Planes they already have can't really be grounded immediately without replacements. Buying replacements takes time and money. Negotiating contracts also takes time. Pre existing contracts tying a company to boeing probably exist in some places. There's probably some incentive to not drop a somewhat strategic business on a whim. And maybe some people believe that boeing will start pulling their head out of their ass at some point.

And all that would be a hindrance assuming there is a will to stop buying boeing planes, AND move to another, potentially foreign business like Airbus.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

they probably already bought too many of Boeing planes before these accidents happened. So what are they gonna do, put a bunch of Boeing planes in the back room and use Airbus? Still when i fly, I avoid Boeing like a plague. The problem is there are very limited Airbus flights for my route.

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[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago

Boeing is run too much by Wall Street.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Black Rock basically owns the entire stock market. Even the best intentioned companies eventually have to cave to fiduciary duty to shareholders.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Black Rock owns absolutely fuck-all. It only manages the 401ks of normal people like you and me, and STOLE OUR SHAREHOLDER VOTING RIGHTS.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Yeah these headlines always grind my gears. Even the equity they don't steal, they leverage as if their own assets. They're fucking mine and yours.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

No, it really doesn't. Assets under management (not owned) 11.5 trillion, while the American stock market alone is worth around 50.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

What capitalist giant corp isn't?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_private_non-governmental_companies_by_revenue

Including such recognizable names as Aldi, State Farm, Deloitte, Ingram Micro, and Ikea.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Boeing is straight fucking scum, but that was the strangest plane crash I've ever seen. (LOL, like I'm an export.) The truth will out.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

i've seen one, where the plane stalled after taking off and then kinda went backwards, then dove frontal again. if i remember correctly, unsecured cargo was suspected. it fell like a leaf.

found it: https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/may/01/747-cargo-plane-crash-bagram-airbase-video

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

I remember that, if I remember correctly, it was a tank, and they suddenly had a massive CoG shift to the back of the aircraft, causing the plane to pitch up and stall.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Ya it was military equipment that was not secured appropriately.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

That is crazy, it looked like CGI.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

a game glitching.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah.... The article is conflating power failure with engine failure. It was a very odd plane crash, and it didn't appear that they had power failure. It looks like they lost thrust on both engines, which is really rare in multiengine aircraft.

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