• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Boeing has successfully made me mildly anxious about flight for the first time in my life and it only took a couple of months after a lifetime of thinking of it as incredibly safe. Capitalism is awesome.

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Nationalized is not better. Then you just have an ever larger pool to externalize the losses against, and a simple political appointment to scapegoat to “fix” the problem.

      Quality commercial fleets like this take so much more to manage than is captured in “just nationalize it” or “fuck capitalism”.

  • thelasttoot@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So, I know that access to information has made it seem like violent crime is happening more often even though it’s actually been trending down. And I’m just wondering if that same phenomenon is happening with plane problems. Because it feels like there’s a new issue with a Boeing plane every fucking day and I’m just wondering if that’s due to an increase in reporting or if Boeing planes are actually blowing up more often than they used to.

    • TangledHyphae@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Are you sure? Car jackings are up 37% in Chicago this year already. I would consider armed robbery and armed carjacking to be violent, and those are up, it’s homicides that are down it seems.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      Sure but an engine cover falling off is hardly Boeing’s fault, that’s a maintenance problem. The thing is a lot of these reported failures are maintenance issues, sure Boeing has their problems absolutely, but they also make the most common type of aircraft in the world. Inevitably there are going to be problems and most of those problems will be with the most common aircraft, because, by definition, there are more of them than any other type.

        • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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          1 year ago

          Dude get off your high horse.

          Boeing is not without problems. They have tons. Namely the whole self-certificatjon process (which really is just as much the fault of the FAA, for allowing Boeing to do so, but that was also with tons of lobbying dollars from Boeing) and everything that resulted from it (basically everything about the max 8).

          But this specific example is not fair to pin on Boeing. This really sounds like a maintenance issue for SWA.