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minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoI’m willing to wait for the analysis. It was a hot day and based on the video they didn’t have flaps set at take off.
minus-squareWalican132@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoI mean it was 12 years old. That’s old. Any recent issues with Boeing of which there are a ton, shouldn’t reflect on a 12 year old plane.
minus-squarecall_me_xale@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoMy dude, there are 30±year-old 737s still flying around.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoOP meant the plane’s age predates Boeing’s issues.
minus-squareryannathans@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoExcept it doesn’t, the whistleblowers are from the dreamliner’s construction and claim it takes 10-15 years for manufacturing slop to cause crashes
minus-squareFiskFisk33@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month ago12 is not very old for an airliner, they are expected to last for 20-30 ish years. More in some cases with proper maintenance. The air force one planes for example are almost 40.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoMisunderstood you! You meant the plane’s old enough that Boeing’s QC issues are not a likely cause.
Another Boeing airplane.
I’m willing to wait for the analysis. It was a hot day and based on the video they didn’t have flaps set at take off.
A very old one
787-8 isn’t “very old”
I mean it was 12 years old. That’s old. Any recent issues with Boeing of which there are a ton, shouldn’t reflect on a 12 year old plane.
My dude, there are 30±year-old 737s still flying around.
OP meant the plane’s age predates Boeing’s issues.
Except it doesn’t, the whistleblowers are from the dreamliner’s construction and claim it takes 10-15 years for manufacturing slop to cause crashes
12 is not very old for an airliner, they are expected to last for 20-30 ish years.
More in some cases with proper maintenance. The air force one planes for example are almost 40.
Misunderstood you! You meant the plane’s old enough that Boeing’s QC issues are not a likely cause.