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shish_mish@lemmy.world to Global News@lemmy.zipEnglish · 2 days ago

The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About

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The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About

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shish_mish@lemmy.world to Global News@lemmy.zipEnglish · 2 days ago
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Critics of Boeing have long expressed criticisms of the 787 Dreamliner and the company's standards.
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    Gizmodo trash nonsense bait. Literally perfect record since 2011 operating thousands of these planes.

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      True, but that is what the whistleblower warned. He said the planes would fail randomly after around 10-12 years approximately.

      He was a quaility check engineer at the assembly lines (or sth similar) where the workers were forced to assemble too quickly which caused a lot of small foreign bodies (residue) to enter components with wiring that would degrade due to this.

      He also said that would degrade those components much faster than expected and told to the airplane operators causing less checks and earlier failure (than was told by Boeing)

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      It can take years for design flaws to start causing crashes in some cases. The 737 came out in the 1960’s and it wasn’t until the 1990s that the rudder hardover crashes happened

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      Perfect record except the crash…

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        Well the front fell off in this case by all means but it’s very unusual

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        Crash once, sh sh sh shame on you. Crash twice, yew, yew, you can’t crash me again!

        Thanks Mr. Bush! Exactly the point!

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          Lemme preface by saying Bush was a monster who killed countless innocents.

          But I do have nostalgia for when that particular statement was the dumbest thing a US president said in public.

          “If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations, your house just went down 75 percent in value,” Trump said. “And they say the noise causes cancer. You tell me that one, okay? Rerrrr rerrrr!”

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            I do believe that fish and people can get along.

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            The noises he makes in particular may indeed cause cancer…

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      Defects don’t manifest themselves immediately after they roll off the assembly line. They cause premature systemic failures after a number of years of operations. These aircraft should last 20-30 years before failure.

      No I will not give you a source. I think it was a verge article.

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