• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 months ago

    Boeing has successfully made me mildly anxious about flight for the first time in my life and it only took a couple of months after a lifetime of thinking of it as incredibly safe. Capitalism is awesome.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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        3 months ago

        I asked for a couple of doses of Valium when I had an 18h flight (Taiwan). I drank at the airport bar before boarding. I was so out of it when we landed that my partner had to tell me what to do. If there had been an emergency procedure I would have died for sure, but at least I wouldn’t have been panicked about it.

        • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Thanks for being a fuckwit where your body may have blocked others.

          Same energy as driving drunk

          Downvotes from equally inconsiderate buffoons. Don’t be so altered in public that you are a danger to others.

            • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
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              3 months ago

              Childish. There are many emergencies other than a straight up crash where evacuation is important.

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Nationalized is not better. Then you just have an ever larger pool to externalize the losses against, and a simple political appointment to scapegoat to “fix” the problem.

      Quality commercial fleets like this take so much more to manage than is captured in “just nationalize it” or “fuck capitalism”.

  • thelasttoot@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    So, I know that access to information has made it seem like violent crime is happening more often even though it’s actually been trending down. And I’m just wondering if that same phenomenon is happening with plane problems. Because it feels like there’s a new issue with a Boeing plane every fucking day and I’m just wondering if that’s due to an increase in reporting or if Boeing planes are actually blowing up more often than they used to.

    • TangledHyphae@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Are you sure? Car jackings are up 37% in Chicago this year already. I would consider armed robbery and armed carjacking to be violent, and those are up, it’s homicides that are down it seems.

  • taanegl@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Yanks, isn’t it about time to call in some favours, from New York crime families, MS13 or something, to bypass that corporate captured policies of yours, by going to some of the Boeing execs homes, tying them to chairs and applying car batteries to nipples?

    I mean if they’re sharks, they’re sharks. They don’t know no better. But if you start working their thumbs…

      • taanegl@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        The US government maybe, but then again it’s been captured by a bunch of oligarchs who thrive off CRT and capture more law than a stenographer at congress. This is why yanks are pretty blind to what a government can be and can’t be, and buddy, you’ve got an enshitified government - which is by design. Nothing like making ordinary people hate government and law, so you can capture said government and law. Hook, line and sinker.

        You should just call it the US Government, designed by US corporate, as the whole name, just to be honest with yourself.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      3 months ago

      Sure but an engine cover falling off is hardly Boeing’s fault, that’s a maintenance problem. The thing is a lot of these reported failures are maintenance issues, sure Boeing has their problems absolutely, but they also make the most common type of aircraft in the world. Inevitably there are going to be problems and most of those problems will be with the most common aircraft, because, by definition, there are more of them than any other type.

      • taanegl@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Bro, did you just simp for Boeing, then go off about how government is mafia when they have been twiddled around the thumb of giant corporations? Bro.

        Have you read about Boeing? The statements, the fired engineers, the cost cutting, that whistle blower that “had a little accident” whereby he died mysteriously, the history of the company that Boeing acquired that ate Boeing up from inside and turned it into the same shark tank?

        Like bro, get off that exec and shareholder jockstrap - I beg you.

        • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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          3 months ago

          Dude get off your high horse.

          Boeing is not without problems. They have tons. Namely the whole self-certificatjon process (which really is just as much the fault of the FAA, for allowing Boeing to do so, but that was also with tons of lobbying dollars from Boeing) and everything that resulted from it (basically everything about the max 8).

          But this specific example is not fair to pin on Boeing. This really sounds like a maintenance issue for SWA.

  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    In fairness, I do want to point out that this particular aircraft, N8668A, was built in 2015. This was its first incident. Basically, I’d assume this to be more of a maintenance issue rather than an actual Boeing issue.

    Incidents like this now make the news with ‘Another Boeing…’ when usually the media would report ‘Aircraft diverted…’ and not even mention the aircraft type until the second paragraph in. Every Boeing incident now gets put under a magnifying glass.

    Don’t get me wrong: Boeing has become a shit company and the people who knowingly put lives at risk for profit need to be lined up against a wall. But this doesn’t really feel like one of those incidents, knowing how often engines are checked and serviced after leaving the factory.

    • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Basically, I’d assume this to be more of a maintenance issue rather than an actual Boeing issue.

      Rather than think this is completely related, shouldn’t it instead raise concerns about Boeings maintenance procedures? Extrapolating on their exposed carelessness during engineering and production i don’t see it as much of a stretch to say they aren’t maintaining their planes properly either.

      I’m thinking twice before i fly boeing, period.

      As you say, if boeing is getting away with shit maintenance then maybe all companies are and like someone above said, i shouldn’t fly at all.