A United Airlines flight to Boston was diverted to Denver because of an issue with the plane's wing.
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.
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.
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
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.”
Where does it say that the airline didn’t send the plane for maintenance?
Airlines don’t do their own maintenance, they send them back to Boeing.
A plane isn’t like a car, you don’t just have a go at changing the oil or fixing the brakes yourself and then hope for the best, you send it to the approved place when scheduled or you don’t fly.
This is not true at all. You’re right that planes aren’t like cars, but airlines absolutely do their own maintenance. The maintenance program is initially provided by Boeing and modified by the airline based on statistical monitoring of issues.
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What the fuck is going on at Boeing? Are they cutting that many corners?
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.
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
A 757 can be between 20 and 40 years old
This is the plane, I believe. 29 years old.
Didn’t they fire like half their QA staff a couple years ago?
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.”
Very nice explanation of industry safety without getting too caught up in the details!
Nothing for this case at least.
It’s completely unrelated to Boeing per se. Likely a maintenance issue, maybe repair done wrong.
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.
Damn, imagine working in the marketing department of Boeing.
Didn’t they cut all of those jobs recently? Wait. No. That was all their 900 QC door bolt retention confirmers that were ‘unnecessary’
“When it hasn’t been your day, your week, your month, or even your year.”
I’ll be there for youuu
When the plane starts to stall
I’ll be there for youuu
When the wing is no more
I’ll be there for youuu
To state the claims are untruuu-uuue
So no one ever known a flight could’ve ended up this waaay
The starboard wing has broke
Cabin door’s flying awaaay
You’re out of hope, you lost your landing geeear
But our stocks are the lowest they’ve been so far this fiscal yeeeear, so
I’ve a job to doooo
Get prepared for that bull
Remind all the neeews
It’s never happened before
I’ve a job to doooo
And I guess I’m pretty gooo-oood
Should I send this to Airbus marketing team ? 😂
Repeat after me:
“Everything’s fine. Nothing to see here. Move along.”
That’s why oanss have two wings, duh. for redundant sea.
Fuck Boeing. And fuck United too.
So karma is real
the last time I was on an airplane was december 31, 2000.
nothing since that time has encouraged me to break that boycott.
Is that your alibi for 9/11?
So with airlines needing bailouts, price gouging, and cost cutting affecting safety, maybe bring back the CAB era laws?
This is more on the airline not doing their maintenance
Where does it say that the airline didn’t send the plane for maintenance?
Airlines don’t do their own maintenance, they send them back to Boeing.
A plane isn’t like a car, you don’t just have a go at changing the oil or fixing the brakes yourself and then hope for the best, you send it to the approved place when scheduled or you don’t fly.
I knew a mechanical engineer that worked for an airline doing repairs. The plane would only go back to Boeing under serious need
This is not true at all. You’re right that planes aren’t like cars, but airlines absolutely do their own maintenance. The maintenance program is initially provided by Boeing and modified by the airline based on statistical monitoring of issues.
This is certifiably false information and seeing this sort of disinformation spread with this amount of certainty is disgusting.
Source: Aerospace engineer working for a competing Prime.
Boeing please stop picking Gremlins as the in flight movie
Shows ‘Twilight zone: the movie’ instead.
Or the original Shatner episode.
“There’s something… on the wing!”
https://youtu.be/_OF2uOy5r5k
Blanco Lirio analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoMTUuKIC2I
After watching Masters of the Sky this looks like just a scratch.