Passenger sees "wing coming apart" on United flight from San Francisco to Boston; flight forced to land in Denver
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A United Airlines flight to Boston was diverted to Denver because of an issue with the plane's wing.

Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver::A United Airlines flight to Boston was diverted to Denver because of an issue with the plane’s wing.

  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    52·
    9 months ago

    I know a guy who works at Boeing

    He says right now it’s pretty rough due to recent events but things were finally cooling down

    That was before this news broke

    He’s probably going to have a shitty day tomorrow with more visits from the FAA and other regulators

    • thesilverpig@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      9 months ago

      A believe there have been quite a few articles published with interviews from former Boeing execs with who were around when the company went from engineer ran to finance ran. One of them I remember the former executive said part of why they will continue to not trust Boeing is they are only grounding planes to solve one problem at a time after it’s caused massive failure and not trying to engineer and solve all the problems they can so these failures stop happening mid flight.

      • JasonDJEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        You take the population of vehicles in the field (A) and multiple it by the probable rate of failure (B), then multiply the result by the average cost of an out-of-court settlement ©.

        A times B times C equals X. This is what it will cost if we don’t initiate a recall. If X is greater than the cost of a recall, we recall the cars and no one gets hurt. If X is less than the cost of a recall, then we don’t recall.

    • Haha@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      9 months ago

      I don’t feel bad for your friend. One bad day at work or 100+ people dying?