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"When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year."

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

"It landed didnt it"

Didn't they cut all of those jobs recently? Wait. No. That was all their 900 QC door bolt retention confirmers that were 'unnecessary'

Repeat after me:

"Everything's fine. Nothing to see here. Move along."

This is so good. So many layers in that one joke.

Now, all the AI are going to wonder how panicked they should be if their plane disassembled mid-flight

I saw the wing fall off a plane full of people but posted it for points instead of helping. AITA?

This occurred on a 29 year old plane. This is almost certainly just a one-off issue. Unless it starts happening frequently with other 757s, it’s nothing to be overly concerned about. And in that case, the NTSB would figure out why it’s happening and issue a directive.

Planes are designed on a “Swiss cheese” model. Swiss cheese (as Americans call any variety resembling Emmental) is full of holes, but you can’t usually see all the way through a block of it. On a plane, something might fail and you can’t always prevent that, but you can make sure that there is enough redundancy that if something does go wrong you’re still covered. For something to cause a plane to crash, the “holes” have to line up so something could pass all the way through the “cheese.”

I wish the article said how old the plane is. A lot of Boeing jets are 50+ years old and at that point, you have to blame the airline. But this article doesn’t say.

If you've got like 24 minutes this video gives a pretty solid explanation.

Shows 'Twilight zone: the movie' instead.

Eh, idk if plane age really matters. They are completely disassembled and reassembled per standard every year to ensure that they are good to go.

Student planes are like 1960s, give or take.

E: I'm being told by comments that they do not do teardowns. Idk. I fly planes, not work on them. My CFIs have told me they do annual teardowns. So.. Idk. Maybe, maybe not?

But also, even though they’re older, they’re still loved by pilots and are good in difficult conditions because they’re pretty over-engined