One odd thing is that witnesses on the ground reported seeing flames coming from the plane before it crashed.

Saddle brown is always the best interior color. People need to stop with the grays and creme colors, why get leather at all then?

It hits all the right buttons here in the Age of Radwood, but gut feeling (the only meaningful metric for a unicorn like this) is that fifteen large is too much. What’s the going rate for good ones in Europe lately? Somehow ten seems more reasonable.

But if this is a repeat of that failure, at this point it would represent a serious breakdown in pilot training.

The spirit of the DC-10 haunting Boeing?

There’s also a theory that they picked up some McDonnell Douglas “finance dude” DNA in the merger years ago... and they started to do weird crap like outsource major parts of the airframe and systems integration— all the stuff that traditional button-down Boeing engineers would have overseen directly.

Exactly. I had that on another thread today...

Uh, no, I haven’t. The Lion Air data has been thoroughly analyzed.

I believe the FO was PIC.. he had only 200 flight hours.. I might be mistaken.  But I don’t disagree completely.. they should have replaced the 737 with a clean sheet airframe!

The MAX is destined to be grounded worldwide and Boeing’s headstrong behavior makes them look even more ham-handed than they did in the middle of the 787 battery kerfuffle— with video beamed worldwide of battery goo and smoking dripping out of the bellies of new 787s.

Man, supra owners are going to have a GREAT time with toyota techs working on their BMW engines....

I think you should compromise. Do a powertrain swap between the Optima and ZJ. 

Wow. That theft-recovered Jeep story is pretty wild. Maybe that car would have been the one shot up in the film, Brat 2.

“...it’s by no means contemporary either. It’s in resale value purgatory—the hand-me-down, high-school parking lot phase of its life.”

He’ll use 2 60 A/C (hopefully people get that...)

Then they’re definitely coming from Japan. Overnight. Same day delivery? What is this, Amazon Prime: Japan Edition? No. He’s getting the parts, Japanese parts, and they’re coming from Japan, it will take at least one day to get to him, so then overnight if you will. Possibly, POSSIBLY, this is a joke reference to some…

Not really, the 2jz was produced until 2007 so it may be old, but it’s not that old.

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