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An engine cover rips off a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737, forcing an emergency landing (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's always been that frequent...

The 737-MAX issues are very high profile and represent an extremely bad issue at Boeing's core.

But these issues are nothing like that. They're constant background issues that you were ignoring before now, you'll just go back to ignoring them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is a maintenance issue with the airline, not a manufacturing issue. Big difference. A mechanic doing routine maintaine probably forgot to latch the cowling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Definitely - that's why I'm saying this has always been a constant background level of fuckups.

Airplanes are so scrutinized and safe that this level of casual negligence rarely causes issues.