Statistically, two new planes should not crash within half a year. But they did due to shoddy work, dangerous implementation, and disregard for safety.

Weird, everyone else are going more streamlined at the front. Polestar are going full on Hyundai “Hot Hatch” 2014.

Look up how and why Boeing implemented MCAS, and how they tried to lie about it, causing two fatal crashes, and they still tried to hide it, continued their lies. That speaks to a systemic failure in their safety culture. But sure, because the 787 does not have MCAS (supposedly - they hid it in the max, so who knows),…

Sure, it’s all a conspiracy against Boeing.

Yes, I realise that quite a few people needed further explanation. So I provided it.

Look upthread for why it’s relevant: Shoddy engineering, shoddy execution, little to no quality control, and a sole focus on upping shareholder values in the short term, regardless of it costing lives.

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.