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Tire falls off Boeing 777 United flight departing SFO, crushing several vehicles
- robswc 3y agoThis could just be availability bias but man if it doesn't seem like Boeing has some sort of quality issue every other week.
- Zigurd 3y agoMaintenance quality could be the next big aviation scandal. Offshore maintenance depots, outsourcing, etc. So much "normalization of deviance" in the name of cost optimization in safety-critical areas.
- alpaca128 3y agoSeems like for once Boeing wasn't at fault: > John Cox, a retired pilot and professor of aviation safety at the University of Southern California, agreed. "I don't see any impact for Boeing as it was a United maintenance team that changed the tire," he said.