The captain had 15000hrs and still screwed the pooch this badly?!? (sure sounds like operator stupidity)
Another incident, fucking planes are junk. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...ndon-heathrow-virgin-atlantic-boeing-british/
Again....older Boeing 737 and likely the fault of the SW Airlines ground crew's negligence. https://nypost.com/2024/04/07/us-ne...airlines-boeing-737-ripping-apart-on-takeoff/
Meh. You got a second engine. I mean who Hasn’t had the hood to their beater ass car fly up while driving down the road. I know I have. You fuggin Ace Ventura that $hit and keep driving. You think John Wayne, Davy Crockett or Abe Lincoln would have turned around just because 1 engine cover disintegrated on the takeoff roll? Hell naw. Americas gone soft. Soft I say.
So it's not just Boing but the industry in general that's responsible for planes shedding parts in flight. That should assuage the fears of the flying public.
More whistleblowing... https://www.businessinsider.com/boe...-criminal-coverup-over-737-max-blowout-2024-4 https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/17/business/boeing-whistleblower-safety-hearing/index.html https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/17/boeing-whistleblower-safety-hearing
The whistleblowers strike me as being off by a bunch. Not defending boeing, I'm sure they do put profits and timelines to the front but still.
Every company that makes anything mechanical has to balance profits, timelines, and safety. It is all where you put the line. You could build the world's safest car, but it would be so heavy, perform so badly, get such bad fuel economy, and cost so much that no one would buy it. If you chase down and triple protect and overbuild every possible failure point on an aircraft as complex as a passenger jet, it will be late to market, heavy, poor performing, and your aircraft company will go out of business. I don't know enough to know if Boeing's line is or was too far out of whack or not. Sounds like it probably was, but maybe it isn't anymore or maybe it still is.
This also gets influenced to a large extent by who is running the company. Apparently before the McDonnell Douglas merger back in the 90's, Boeing's higher ups had a higher focus on quality over profits than they are in their current incarnation.
If the folks running the company won't hedge enough toward profits side of the line, the board or major investors will replace them with people that will.