Another Boeing 737 Max-8 crash

Well, that's all relative I suppose. Our flight keeps getting delayed and we're still sitting in Miami. Our inbound plane has at least left Cancun and is heading to us. We're supposed to leave at 4:45 now.

 

Check your work emails real quick before you go on vacation, unless you're going to be reading it from there.

 

I did and sent it to her.

She's very appreciative as am I.

 

If you're flying in and out of Florida and you are getting delayed, 1st, blame Jacksonville Center, 2nd Blame the FAA for being a typical government bureaucracy and royally dicking up the controller hiring.

 

We're in a hotel in Miami because AA kept dicking us around for 12 hours. They finally cancelled the flight at 8:00 tonight and wouldn't give usour bags for 16 hours. I rebooked with a different airline for tomorrow morning and will claim our bags in Nassau.

AA can eat a full bag of dicks. Fuck them!

 

115k commercial airplanes. Boeing has about 42% share of the market, so guessing about 45k flights per day since I couldn't find any stats. Two Boeing crashes involving fatalities in the last six years and 6x365x45k flights so 1 in about 49 million or about 5 times less likely than winning $1m in the Powerball. Cut that to the last 5 years and the number drops to zero since the last crash fatality was March 10th, 2019. She will likely be crying even if he was on Boeing. It is way safer than the drive to and from the airport, but don't let facts get in the way of hysteria. I still laughed at the meme.

 

Oh. Yeah. We can tell. You’re a bundle of lulz.

 

Sounds like American airlines

 

FYI advance notice AA will lose your bags plan accordingly

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/southwest-close-call-air-traffic-control-laguardia-new-york/

Another damn 737 max. They should all be grounded. This time the plane couldn’t fly straight.

 

not sure that was the plane but we’ll see. There was another head scratcher yesterday at msp of a crew flying who knows where almost like their instruments were turned around but responding verbally correctly. Global warming must be messing up everyone’s instruments I guess

 

https://wtop.com/national/2024/04/p...ore-a-united-airlines-jet-slid-off-a-taxiway/

 

Not enough info in those short articles to do much but guess, but initial impressions are bad weather and pilot error. So clearly Boeing’s fault.

 

Yeah. That doesn’t sound like an airframe issue, but I guess anything is possible.

 

Pilot was just practicing his trail braking. Must have forgot to adjust his brake marker.

 

Was there a ship and a bridge involved?

 

Step on the needle or step on the dots...damn I always forget that one. Oh well