It’s funny it’s mostly a couple of airlines and one manufacturer. I doubt failure rates on new and newish planes are in general this high as it apparently is. If it was, a lot of other airlines and other manufacturers would have equally disastrous failures. Yet it seems centered on a very few (US) airlines and one…

Both are built by Boeing. So it is by no means a stretch to think that if they can make something as MCAS, and hide it/try to hide it from pilots and regulators even after two deadly crashes, it is not a stretch for anyone to think “it might actually be the plane and not turbulence”.

Mentioning the MCAS was as an example of Boeing’s shoddy work as a way to show they are willing to hide extremely dangerous things, even after the two crashes.

Let me repeat:

It’s a “feature” I mentioned as an example to show that it is not wrong to think it might be Boeing’s shoddy work.

MCAS. Fucking MCAS. Look it up.

United airlines lax maintenance coupled with Boeing’s lax manufacturing processes and self-regulation seems to come to a head this year.

... he said sarcastically.

I don’t think so. The person with dementia is collateral damage. His family should have protected him by not being able to “buy stuff” so easily.

It was a leather-covered tennis ball or something to make it look like a baseball. A baseball doesn’t jump that high on a concrete floor.

Not sure having tail lights mimic warning triangles from any distance over 4 metres is a good thing.

The panel van idea is great!

A Dodge? After they went full “We’re here for the Magats only”, I would be almost as unlikely to drive a Dodge as I would a Tesla.

Me too.

Time to install dead-man buttons, but since the plane can’t stop, have it blaring alarms high, and have cameras in the cockpit to tell if people are sleeping.

Good. People willing to support a narcissist fascist psycopath and advertise that fact deserves no less.

Sheesh! The mere thought of one of those discs breaking at speed gives me the shivers.

Sure, let’s applaud piss-poor products, frauds and general narcissist psycopathy.

I agree, and I will: This dismissal smacks of corruption. EIther money changed hands, or the ones making the decision to dismiss this are idiotic fanboys.

I see lots of Jimnys around here. When I point them out to my wife, she looks at me as if to say “I know you like small cars, but you’re being stupid”.