amp link? Ewww
What’s the problem?
US government when local dearies murder insurmountable numbers of people:
*I sleep
US government when foreign brands as much as fart:
*I shall rain down upon you with furious anger!
Let’s just get back on the case, detective…
spoiler
Unless there’s something fishy foreign policy-wise going on with those planes
Headline was altered to 85 dead.
96 now
177 now, and likely to be 179. Two survivors (both are crew members), everyone else dead. Horrible.
I kept checking back and the number kept climbing, what a nightmare, those poor people.
Open page. Look for the word “Boeing”. Find it almost instantly. Be surprised.
Wait, not that last one.
They’re saying there was a bird strike as they were coming in to land. Boeing may not be a factor on this one.
How do birds take out planes?
I remember watching modern marvels and they were showing jet engines being tested by firing frozen chickens into them and they didn’t even blink.
Bird strike took out the landing gear?
Not what article is saying. Plane was ordered to a runway to avoid bird strikes. Landing gear failed to fully come down. Pilot did declare mayday 2 minutes before touching down, so seems to have had the opportunity to abort landing, or jettison fuel, which would not normally be full enough on landing to burn everyone.
Fair enough - bear in mind that I posted 6 hours ahead of you, and I was getting info from a BBC live feed, not the posted article.
Regardless, I think we can agree that this is a horrendous tragedy and hopefully a full and accurate explanation can be found.
It’s a 15 year old plane, at that point it’s more about the airline maintenance program and pilots rather than who made it.
15 years is nothing and it’s probably the plane of theseus at that point
Wasn’t the problem with the blown put door for example that the official Boeing maintenance contractors just didn’t fix it right? Or was that not “maintenance” but rather “retrofitting”?
I honestly don’t quite remember.
it wasn’t factory installed properly… with enough bolts.
an average commercial plane is easily used for 20 years, and depending on the model can go for nearly twice as long.
Since the article doesn’t mention it: Aircraft type - Boeing 737-8AS
