“Life will have its up and downs… Unless you’re using our autopilot, then it’s just pretty much down.”
The thing is MCAS fucking used to overpower manual commands, unless you actually followed some specific procedure to disable it
Edit: And boeing didn’t think it was necessary to tell the pilots about this
Yeah, it would have been a completely horrifying and infuriating way to die, especially for the pilots who probably had a pretty good idea of what was happening but just never got told how to deal with it
Also, it just blows me away that the corporation as a whole got charged with felony fraud, fraud which caused the deaths of hundreds of people, and they still just get to be a company after saying sorry and paying a little fine. When Fuckup Beauregard III decides to rob his local gas station with an unloaded gun and the clerk dies of a heart attack (or when his accomplice Cletus gets shot and killed by a responding police officer), the felony murder rule will kick in for him and say “someone dying as a result of your felonious behavior is legally equivalent to you intentionally murdering them,” but that sort of thing just doesn’t ever happen to rich and powerful people.
This is why I refuse to fly. Just scandal and improper training and maintenance. It’s fucking dangerous.
It’s not yet more dangerous than most other modes of travel.
It’s just more dangerous than it needs to be thanks to capitalist “innovation”.
I know a (retired) guy who used to be an engineer designing commercial airliners. He, too, categorically refused to fly.
Makes ya think.
Part of it could just be the survivability. A lot of people get REALLY turned off of ideas if the result can be terrible death, even to the point of having something like a phobia of risk in general. Like some won’t ride a motorcycle even if it’s just down the street once.
Maybe it’s a phobia for me. I know, statistically, it’s the safest way to travel. But I hate having no control over my fate. Plane improperly maintained causes the flight I’m on to crash into the mountains? No thanks. I know it’s extremely irrational but it is still terrifying to me.
But people die every day in cars due to somebody else’s actions and/or poor maintenance.
Place crashes are very memorable and flashy though.
I agree. The situation is already dangerous enough without those in charge cutting corners for profit…
Wouldn’t it technically be a phobia of danger rather than risk?
No idea. They’re related words, but I would say it should be the more generic term. Danger to my mind implies a specific thing. Like spinning blades that you could accidentally touch, or a driver not watching the road. Danger is exposure to a specific risk, so it’s just a matter of opinion on how “dangerous” something like a plane is beyond the stats.
and the stats say it’s highly safe. You just might have a terrible end you’ll see coming if you lose the lottery.
This is why Airbus is superior
You know because they actually have real regulations and consequences for not following proper guidelines in the EU
Also because it was made up of former WW2 engineers at the forefront of innovation including Messerschmitt lol. Boeing made big chungus prop bombers, never any jet fighters or even prop fighters. /s
Boeing big chungusHuehuehue
What’s the sound of the doors popping off mid-flight?
“Boeing!”
‘A plane that goes up must also come down’
When is Boeing going to have a Blowout Sale for the Max’s?
Imagine sitting next to the door and having to go to the bathroom.
That wouldn’t happened. You would have already peed yourself.
When Boeing closes a door, he opens a window
Boeing: opening new portals of aviation!
Too soon
For the door to blow off? I agree
I’d didn’t just blow off, it rapidly dissembled from the plane in an unscheduled emergency.
Are there scheduled emergencies?
January 19, 2038.
So I have time to prepare.
No one was seriously injured or died. I don’t see how it could be too soon.
It was a serious incident, but not a catastrophe. Joking about it seems fine.
I missed this news… What is being referenced?
A door blew out mid-flight on the same plane which crashed 2 times because of a design flaw, early investigation revealed several loose bolts
They should probably stop reassembling it and just build a new one
I see! Thank you.
toothpaste sandwich is so cursed. awesome username lol
I don’t wanna be that guy but how the actual fuck did you miss this news? It’s been talked about on repeat on literally every news avenue for the past week. Including every single social media platform including reddit and lemmy.
Wow, I feel like you worded this a bit aggressively and I’m not sure that was necessary. I hope life is treating you well, my friend.
Well, I could imagine that it’s because I don’t live in the US, and there’s a different focus of topics here? I’m sure it’s been mentioned on the news website I sometimes visit, but apparently on a day when I wasn’t looking.
Maybe they’re doing news better than us, because this was like the least important thing.
You think a plane door falling off mid flight and exposing major manufacturing oversights isn’t an important topic? Interesting…
Now do cars
Car manufacturering issues is also very important. You can have two things that are important. What the actual fuck is your point here?
It’s 420 somewhere, cool off.
Car doors fly off all the time and people actually die.
It’s not really a major manufacturing oversight. It takes just two dumb fucks to do this. It’s why complacency kills in aircraft.
I haven’t heard about this either. I don’t watch TV, I am not on social media, and I have ad block.
