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Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver

Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver::A United Airlines flight to Boston was diverted to Denver because of an issue with the plane's wing.

unphazed ,

So with airlines needing bailouts, price gouging, and cost cutting affecting safety, maybe bring back the CAB era laws?

zerog_bandit ,

Blanco Lirio analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoMTUuKIC2I

fastandcurious ,
@fastandcurious@lemmy.world avatar

So karma is real

AstralPath ,

Does it not seem like something may have hit the wing on takeoff; a bird perhaps? This might not be anyone's fault.

Telodzrum ,

Birdstrike doesn’t cause the type of damage which would produce this type of result.

arefx ,

What the fuck is going on at Boeing? Are they cutting that many corners?

hansl ,

Didn’t they fire like half their QA staff a couple years ago?

pulaskiwasright ,

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.

diffusive ,

At least in Europe, passengers jets are new because more fuel efficient at the "normal" speed. These old jets are then transformed in cargo where they go very slow so fuel efficiency goes up by other means (and the old jet is way cheaper).

This was a passenger plane so i doubt it was anywhere close to 50 years old

Raxiel ,

A 757 can be between 20 and 40 years old

TheRealKuni ,

This is the plane, I believe. 29 years old.

TheRealKuni ,

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.”

dangblingus ,

This "one-off" issue was spotted on dozens of 737s.

TheRealKuni ,

This "one-off" issue was spotted on dozens of 737s.

This issue with a damaged wing slat on this particular 29-year-old 757 was spotted on dozens of 737s? Do you have a source for that?

Unless you’re confusing this with the 737 MAX 9 door plug issue. That is not a one-off, that is a manufacturing/assembly issue. And that’s my point. The door plug situation is a systemic problem on many brand new planes, whereas this story is about a relatively small issue on a 29-year-old plane.

Something being damaged on a 757 shouldn’t shake people’s confidence in Boeing. Shit going wrong in the design and manufacturing of the 737 MAX series should.

WeirdGoesPro ,
@WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

This guy planes.

assassin_aragorn ,

Very nice explanation of industry safety without getting too caught up in the details!

supercriticalcheese ,

Nothing for this case at least.

It's completely unrelated to Boeing per se. Likely a maintenance issue, maybe repair done wrong.

Manalith ,

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

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Did they see it coming apart and say nothing to the crew?

E: another passenger did. Apparently not the clowns that had to get firsties posting to social media.

brlemworld ,

After watching Masters of the Sky this looks like just a scratch.

Burn_The_Right ,

Fuck Boeing. And fuck United too.

uis , (edited )
@uis@lemm.ee avatar

Dear passangers, fasten your seatbelts and don't look on the left side. If you already did, don't worry, self-dissasembling bus from Saint Petesburg does not fly near us, in fact this is our left wing.

Treczoks ,

Holy cow. My sisters VW Beetle did this once, too. It was quite fresh out of inspection/repair, and whatever those guys did to the motor, they forgot to pull the screws tight again...

Ilovethebomb ,

Oh man, I would piss myself laughing if this happened in front of me.

XTornado ,

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/2e76b138-e3ed-484a-9b01-fb6b9618c85b.gif

state_electrician ,

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

ColeSloth ,

Like.....2

TropicalDingdong ,

That's why oanss have two wings, duh. for redundant sea.

JorMaFur ,

Redundant sea, right next to the north sea obviously!

XTornado ,

Well with that wing is the sea you get at some point in the future.

nyan ,

At the rate they're going, they're gonna have to start designing four-winged planes.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

They did that during the first world war.

JohnnyCanuck ,
@JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca avatar

What a bunch of fokkers.

Ilovethebomb ,

"Sitting right on the wing and the noise after reaching altitude was much louder than normal. I opened the window to see the wing looking like this," user octopus_hug wrote. "How panicked should I be? Do I need to tell a flight crew member?

Holy shit, redditors are a special breed. Yes, you should probably tell someone.

I should go and find the comment.

Vanth , (edited )
@Vanth@reddthat.com avatar

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    GBU_28 ,

    "hi sorry, I'm sitting in 20A, and, I don't want to make a fuss or anything, but I'd appreciate if you took a peek out of my window,... Put me at ease that something I noticed on the wing is normal."

    "Here, I took a photo, mind looking?"

    wewbull ,

    That's far better than going "HOLY SHIT THE WING IS FALLING OFF!". In an emergency you need to be calm but decisive, and not spread panic.

    dhork ,

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

    Jimmyeatsausage ,

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

    JasonDJ ,

    The right thing to do is to post it on X and @ the airline.

    gravitas_deficiency ,

    lol fuck I am pretty sure I’ve been a passenger on that tail number more than a few times

    captainastronaut ,
    @captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org avatar

    United Airlines - our planes are decrepit but at least the pretzels are… stale!

    WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

    And they break guitars.

    N0body ,

    Boeing: Amtrak of the Skies. We’ll probably get you there safely.

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