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That it deflated, broke and crashed just a bit over a year during a test flight doesn't give me the confidence that I'd wanna fly in this thing. Conceptually th
by kerng 8y ago
That it deflated, broke and crashed just a bit over a year during a test flight doesn't give me the confidence that I'd wanna fly in this thing.
Conceptually this seems a lot easier and safer to build and operate compared to a let's say a Boeing, so crashes make me wonder about their quality assurance.
- Reason077 8y agoHopefully they’ve learnt from what went wrong and made improvements for the production model. A lot of Boeings crashed in the early days of jet aviation, too, but now they’re considered very safe.
- ReptileMan 8y agoAs the Lion Air crash showed too much safety can kill you.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoStrange interpretation, I think most saw it as inadequate training.
- Someone1234 8y agoBoeing didn't tell the airline or crew that they had added the new safety system and didn't provide training materials for it. The "most" you're referring to are people that didn't read any of the preliminary findings and jumped to conclusions the second they read Lion Air.
- jhayward 8y agoAre you referring to this event? I'd hardly call that a "broke and crash during test flight". "HAV suffered a setback last November, when the parked airship broke free of its mooring mast. An onboard safety system automatically ripped open the hull in order to deflate the aircraft, thus keeping it from drifting. It has since been determined that the mishap occurred due to an incorrectly-secured locking mechanism between the airship and the mast." [1][2] [1] https://newatlas.com/airlander-10-passenger-cabin/55515/ https://newatlas.com/airlander-10-passenger-cabin/55515/ [2] https://newatlas.com/airlander-10-incident/52254/ https://newatlas.com/airlander-10-incident/52254/