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Clickbait. The B777 is probably the safest, most meticulously engineered commercial wide-body aircraft ever built. They're also getting old, and airlines reti
by schmuckonwheels 10mo ago
Clickbait.
The B777 is probably the safest, most meticulously engineered commercial wide-body aircraft ever built.
They're also getting old, and airlines retire old aircraft.
- carbocation 10mo agoThe article explicitly says that the aircraft is safe. I don't think this is particularly clickbait-y.
- schmuckonwheels 10mo agoOne sentence buried in an article that ledes with BIG SCARY ENGINE FAILURE.
- kccqzy 10mo agoIt’s not a buried sentence. It’s a section heading in large font saying “ The 777-200 Problem Is Not Safety. It Is Economics.” Then there’s a whole paragraph stating “The Boeing 777-200 is not an unsafe airplane. As far as I can tell, that is not the issue even after the incident over Dulles over the weekend.” Then just in case the reader jumped to conclusions, the first sentence of the conclusion again says it’s safe.
- cvoss 10mo agoYou are explaining exactly why the headline is clickbait: The article does not support the conclusions implied by the headline. > just in case the reader jumped to conclusions The author is correcting a problem of his own creation. He has already misled the reader with his headline. He means for the reader to misunderstand... and click.
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- arjie 10mo agoI recall clickbait meaning "A way of describing what's behind a link, often inaccurately, so that you click on it". The completely non-controversial article seems to me to have a very hook-y headline which is exactly what the phrase refers to, at least to me. What does clickbait mean to you? Perhaps the meaning of the phrase has changed in different groups over time.
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- unethical_ban 10mo ago"Future of US-China Relations in Question After Death of Hollywood Director" A literally true sentence which falsely implies a correlation between events. Discussion of the 777-200's economic viability has nothing to do with the Dulles incident.
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- tekla 10mo agoAs far as I'm aware no 777-200 mounted engine has ever exploded
- wewtyflakes 10mo agoFrom the article: https://liveandletsfly.com/united-airlines-777-200-engine-failure/ https://liveandletsfly.com/united-airlines-777-200-engine-fa...
- tekla 10mo agoYou know, this is why I hate it when techies assume they know things because they read something from a blog. The engine did not explode. It suffered an engine failure when the fan blades failed and separated but was a contained failure.
- wewtyflakes 10mo ago"Shortly after takeoff, as the aircraft approached 13,000 feet, the right engine suffered an explosion." :shrug:
- tekla 10mo ago> techies assume they know things because they read something from a blog
- wewtyflakes 10mo agoI cited sources; you are trying to redefine the word "explode" to not mean explode. Regardless, litigating about the word "explode" is the least interesting part of what happened to this plane; at at the end of day, nobody wants to fly on a plane that has its engine exp... err, suffer catastrophic failure that is totally not an explosion.
- _verandaguy 10mo agoThese are the exact points written in the article. They also substantiate the idea that the United 777-200 fleet does face an uncertain future.
- seizethecheese 10mo agoSure, but the headline makes you think this incident caused the uncertain future. It’s definitely clickbait
- usefulcat 10mo agoEntirely true, and also quite underwhelming compared to an engine failure. Personally I'd be a lot more interested in the cause(s) of the failure and how it was handled.
- numpad0 10mo agoThat's not a critical comment for the article, but a TLDR.
- rectang 10mo agoLike you, I took an impression from the headline that safety was at issue — that's why I clicked on the article, only to find out that it was about economics instead. I don't know if it was deliberate clickbait, but that was the effect.
- N19PEDL2 10mo ago> The B777 is probably the safest, most meticulously engineered commercial wide-body aircraft ever built. The last pure Boeing product before the merger with McDonnell Douglas…
- yread 10mo ago> They're also getting old, and airlines retire old aircraft. True, but they do keep the even older 757 flying.
- bengoodger 10mo agoUnited seems to like to hang onto extremely old airplanes even as the number of these disruptions mount. We can argue how statistically they're safer etc but these events are extremely unsettling and disruptive for passengers and frankly it's lucky no one's been killed yet. One of these planes dropped a wheel on a parked car at SFO last year. It's not hard to notice there are other major airlines that generally maintain newer widebody fleets.
- QuiEgo 10mo agoIsn’t Delta’s whole strategy getting old airplanes for cheap and refurbishing them?