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minus-squareWalican132@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 days 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-squareFiskFisk33@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 days 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-squarecall_me_xale@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 days agoMy dude, there are 30±year-old 737s still flying around.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 days agoOP meant the plane’s age predates Boeing’s issues.
minus-squareryannathans@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days 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
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.
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.
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