Submitted 6 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/16/boeing-whistleblower-787-dreamliner
Engineer Sam Salehpour calls on planemaker ahead of testimony before Senate homeland security committee
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After watching the documentary about Boeing's South Carolina production site, no thanks. I do not want to fall from the sky like a bucket of juice. Airbus is more appealing to me.
Before all of the stuff I used to not pay any attention what planes were part of my route. Now it’s definitely a factor I consider.
I think airbus is going to own the market after this
Makes you wonder how many planes are in the sky with a door that has almost fallen off, but not quite yet.
If it’s Boeing I’m not going.
I’m surprised Embraer isn’t more popular.
It’s considered the 3rd biggest player in commercial plane market, but they are tiny in comparison. They have a lot of backend infrastructure built to keep operating, but they don’t have the capital to swing for new, risky designs. One miss and they are at bankruptcy level.
They also missed the mark with their latest Embraer 175-E2 design by not being able to keep the weight under the US scope clause, so they lost a huge market segment.
Honest question: Do Boeings have stricter inspection in the EU, or is it the same everywhere in the world?
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has the authority to act independently of FAA, but they used to mostly follow FAA since they have direct access and oversight of Boeing, them being a US company. But that started to change in 2019 with 373 MAX groundings. It exposed how FAA were incompetent and believed Boeing lies about MCAS. EASA didn’t follow FAA directive to unground them and required some additional procedural changes, combined with relevant training modifications, before ungrounding.
Thank you very much for the concise answer.
manucode@infosec.pub 6 months ago
If I was him, I would keep away from parking garages
smeenz@lemmy.nz 6 months ago
And 787 hangers
paraphrand@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s a lot.
quindraco@lemm.ee 6 months ago
If I were is used when the subject of the sentence is referring to a hypothetical or imaginary situation. If I was is used to refer to a situation that actually happened in the past.
If you were a Boeing whistleblower, I salute you for your service. 🫡
manucode@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Thanks for the free English lesson, I’m still learning