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Boeing 737 slid off the runway and fell into St. Johns River in Florida
- skilled 7y agoFacebook and Boeing having a time of their lives this year.
- aplummer 7y agoFacebook stock is up over 30% this year. So far it’s a blockbuster year for Facebook. I really don’t understand the obsession with the social media company.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoNeither do I, but people still keep using the damn thing.
- aplummer 7y agoI agree with you on usage, what I meant to say was more “I don’t understand why it’s OP compared to Boeing when it’s been a great year for FB” and “I don’t understand why OP brought it up, why do people always want to talk about FB”.
- inflatableDodo 7y ago>why do people always want to talk about FB People use it multiple times every day. And for those of us who don't use it at all, we regularly have to justify ourselves.
- anfilt 7y agoThis is a 737, not a 737 Max. It could be pilot error or lack maintenance plus a bunch other things. I says it's a little quick to jump on Boeing here.
- skilled 7y agoIt makes no difference to the average consumer. They see 'Boeing' having an accident, they immediately think, "another problem? this airline sucks!". But it cuts much deeper than that because the problem with Max involved the lives of hundreds of people. Whichever way you look, this adds an enormous dose of fuel to an ongoing fire.
- anfilt 7y agoNot denying that issue with the 737 Max was probably negligent. However, as you say average people don't care, but then why are headlines putting Boeing 737 in it. It's just going to add to confusion.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoMake the ticket cost $10 less than a non Boeing plane and no one will care.
- majewsky 7y ago> They see 'Boeing' having an accident, they immediately think, "another problem? this airline sucks!". Was going to object that Boeing is an airplane manufacturer, but now I'm not sure if that was intentional.
- burfog 7y agoIt was pilot error to try landing with a tailwind in torrential rain.
- 7952 7y agoI am an aeroplane geek, and would be comfortable flying Boeing. But I don't think the average consumer can be blamed for thinking differently. The general brand news is the only real information they have to go on. At the very least it is a useful heuristic in the absence of actual understanding. And we can't really expect people to understand thoroughly every product and service they use. Big companies put a lot of effort into branding, and it can have positive effects for them. The flip side is that people will see bad news with a similar lack of nuance.
- robjan 7y agoThe media deliberately push stories in this way to make things seem connected. Just like when MH370 disappeared, on the safest year in aviation history, then the press started pushing every little aviation incident.
- interfixus 7y agoMay have been the safest. Doesn't matter. There were two disasters hitting the same airline - Malaysian Airlines - both of them spookier by orders of magnitude than your average flight calamity. And then, in the last days of the year, an Air Asia Airbus plummeting into the sea. That was out of Indonesia, but still... Psychology does matter. I remember my daughter, as hardnosed and rational individual as ever was, shortly afterwards going Air Asia in and out of Kuala Lumpur, and being slightly perturbed, however irrational she knew it to be.
- nichos 7y agoJust drove by it, not much going on. All passengers are accounted for, 21 went to the hospital, really not much to see here.
- RandomInteger4 7y agoSure sure, that's what you WANT us to think! How many super mutant criminals have just escaped due to this?
- nutcracker46 7y agoThe 737 is not a plane you want for landing or taking off in heavy rain. Visibility is shitty even with the wipers set to high. On top of that, no plane is one you want if there's windshear. Want to land with heavy rain on the airfield? "Don't do it. Divert or hold if you can..."
- brainfeed0 7y agoHmm, speculation is early (investigators refrain), but maybe did they get get-there-itis? I watch Mentour Pilot, VASAviation, (Kennedy Steve), Captain Joe, Flight Chops and blancolirio well before the MAX incident.
- sschueller 7y agoInteresting that this is a military charter coming from Gitmo. Wasn't Gitmo supposed to closed by now? How detainees are still being held illegally? EDIT: Wikipedia says it is currently still open and 40 people are being held. Discusting and you can't blame either political parties as they both did nothing.
- dbuder 7y agoI've never cared what plane I'm flying, I know more about fighter jets than passenger aircraft, but I went and saw my parents this week and I was happy/relieved to see on my boarding pass that I was flying on a A320 for both legs. Boeing has wiped off so much brand value with the Max-8 issues that they endanger their long term survival.