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Wheel falls off United Airlines Boeing 777 and crushes cars in San Francisco
- Bosinski 3y agooh lord, Boing has run these days..
- avgDev 3y agoBoeing just cannot catch a break. I'm honestly not sure how common these accidents are normally and media is just paying attention but it is not looking good for Boeing.
- nvy 3y agohttps://avherald.com/ https://avherald.com/ See for yourself.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> not sure how common these accidents are normally Wheels and tyres falling off isn’t normal. Two in three months on Boeing planes starts to imply a pattern. Turbulence injuries, engine problems and strange smells, on the other hand, are quite common [1]. [1] https://avherald.com/ https://avherald.com/
- sokoloff 3y agoThat landing gear has very likely had wheels on and off the aircraft dozens of times prior to this failure. The chance that this is (actually, not perception) a Boeing problem versus a maintenance problem is pretty remote.
- avgDev 3y agoFair assessment. Most likely a maintenance issue.
- AdamJacobMuller 3y agoThat doesn't absolve Boeing of responsibility here. Boeing develops and maintains the specifications for repair and maintenance work as well as criteria for replacement parts. If United deviated from Boeing procedures or intervals when doing the work, or their supplier deviated in producing the product which caused the failure, that is not on Boeing. If the specifications (for repair work, or maintenance intervals, or replacement parts) were deficient, that falls on Boeing.
- michaelmrose 3y agoWheels falling off... controls all dying at once while a plane drops 500 feet in altitude for no reason...door plug flying off while things are sucked out of the plane. Hundreds of people dead because a "smart" control reading from a singular failed sensor (because multiple sensors was a value add) pushed the plane into a dive to hard for pilot to pull out of unless he immediately recognizes that the plane is trying to murder everyone and disables a feature he hasn't been trained on. None of this is normal. If you look at the price its probably based almost entirely on the presumption that Boeing is too big to fail and will be given as much time as required to fix its problems because its hard and long for its few competitors to pick up its slack but it could easily be more painful than is expressed in its price.
- Kluggy 3y agothis is a week old. Nothing new happened this week.
- zitterbewegung 3y agoThis is a week old ..
- tristor 3y agoFor those who are going to chime in about it being another issue about Boeing, this is a 777 so is not a new manufacture aircraft. This is a maintenance issue, not a manufacturing issue.
- spamizbad 3y agothis seems more like a maintenance issue to me - with the fault being on United.
- laweijfmvo 3y agoCurious why they flew all the way to LAX instead of just landing back at SFO? The wheel would have fallen off immediately after take off, before being retracted. Maybe they didn't know until someone found a wheel in/on their car?
- bkberry352 3y agoCorrect, the pilots did not have any indication in the cockpit. ATC had to identify which plane the tire fell from, contact the plane, the plane had to talk to their company before deciding what to do.
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- ohnoitsahuman 3y agoTo burn off fuel. Planes are safer to land when they don't have tons of extra fuel.
- r00fus 3y agodupe from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39635232 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39635232