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Boeing 787 Dreamliner Loses Door at Remote Pacific Airport, Puzzling Engineers
- dylan604 4mo ago"Still, any event in which a door separates from a commercial aircraft tends to attract attention from regulators, manufacturers, and airline safety teams." As well as stockholders I'd imagine.
- nandomrumber 4mo agoBoeing shares up 10% overnight
- firtoz 4mo agoReminds me of this video: https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM - "Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off"
- chpatrick 4mo agoYeah, that's not very typical, I'd like to make that point.
- pseudohadamard 4mo ago> [...] Puzzling Engineers ... but not puzzling anyone who's been watching the direction Boeing has been going.
- djmips 4mo agoVandalism of some type has to be a possibility right?
- dangus 4mo agoIs that the word we are using for Boeing Quality Assurance now?
- jimbob45 4mo agoCan’t recommend the book Airframe by Michael Crichton to help contextualize the typical kneejerk reactions to these kinds of things versus the usual culprits enough. Edit: thanks for pointing out the typo. Good book still.
- GolfPopper 4mo agoI'll bite. Why not?
- jey 4mo agoI thought other reporting claimed that a ground handling truck crashed into the door, thereby detaching it?
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- 866-RON-0-FEZ 4mo agoAs few have already pointed out, an AI hallucination... Quick, to the top of HN! Toyota engineers equally puzzled their doors fly off when you reverse through a toll booth with them open.
- dang 4mo agoCan you please stop posting like this? It is tedious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419549 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419549 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48418855 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48418855 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48418524 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48418524 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416169 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416169 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48415685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48415685
- 866-RON-0-FEZ 4mo agoI'm a bit confused. The first three posts you linked were all upvoted, one sits at +10. In absence of an official scoring rubric, how is one to know what will or won't make you upset if the feedback differs?
- dang 4mo agoHN doesn't operate by upvotes alone (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22upvotes%20alone%22%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). Plenty of bad comments get upvoted, especially the sensational-indignant kind that the internet is flooded with. If upvotes were the only measure, HN would be an entirely different place. Actually, it would have ceased to exist a long time ago (since its purpose is to be a place for intellectual curiosity and those things are incompatible). Therefore, in addition to considering upvotes we have guidelines to explain the intended use of the site in general: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, as well as moderation to try to explain it in specific cases. We run HN this way because otherwise the system would get stuck in one of its failure modes (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20failure%20modes&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). In this case, posting snarky and supercilious putdowns is definitely against the intended use of HN, no matter how many upvotes they get (and they often get plenty). So please don't post those!
- ralph84 4mo agoPut some caution tape over the door and have the pilots fly it out empty at 6,000 feet so it doesn't have to be pressurized.
- nandomrumber 4mo agoHaphazardly chuck a road cone in the isle near the door.
- mikestorrent 4mo agoI have never heard "church" being used as a verb before
- nandomrumber 4mo agoOne wonders do Apple devs even use an iPhone? Like, under what circumstances would I want the word the changed to thr after I’ve typed the next word.
- dylan604 4mo agoI'd venture auto-incorrect had a go here
- nandomrumber 4mo agoTapo. Meaning: a tapographical error, compare typo. I don’t need AI - I’m perfectly capable of being artificially intelligent all by myself
- lostlogin 4mo ago> One wonders do Apple devs even use an iPhone? Between auto-correct and Apple search, I wonder too. I’d like to know how Apple staff find emails on their inboxes. The search is such shiite.
- cyanydeez 4mo agowas it recently adjusted by an LLM
- I_dream_of_Geni 4mo ago"The recent incident of this nature occurred on May 29, 2026, when a LATAM Airlines Boeing 787-8 (registration CC-BBD) had its L2 passenger door torn off by an air-stairs vehicle on Easter Island " There. Fixed it for you.
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- random__duck 4mo agoClearly doors and boeing aircraft don't get along.
- advisedwang 4mo agohttps://worldairlinenews.com/2026/05/31/latam-boeing-787-cc-bbd-is-damaged-at-easter-island/ https://worldairlinenews.com/2026/05/31/latam-boeing-787-cc-... says: "The second door (L2) was torn off by the airstairs truck."