At least six unrelated incidents have occurred on planes operated by United since the end of February. Five of them involved a Boeing plane.
Friday, March 22, 2024
United Airlines CEO addresses string of incidents, tells passengers carrier is safe
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby reassured flyers in a letter this week that the carrier is looking into the string of incidents that have recently involved its planes, from engine and structural issues to a wheel falling off during takeoff.
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Kirby. Isn't he the sicko seen dancing in drag to support his mentally ill employees?
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I will not fly on any 737 Max airplane. Southwest, United and American fly them. Boeing screwed up the design and United screws up the care and maintenance.
ReplyDeleteYer a fool. Some of the affected planes in this article were as much as 25 years old.
DeleteThe issue is with United's maintenance, not the planes.
Maybe bother to read the article before posting a comment like this?
So the dead safety inspector (If I die it wasn't suicide) who told us how unsafe the Dreamliner is - lied. And the story in Al Jazera interviewing workers at the factory and asking if they would feel safe flying in one of the planes they built and almost all saying no is another coincidence.And there is no problems in non-union Kansas Spirit plant. That Boeing didn't spin off Spirit just so they could scream faster, faster, cheaper, cheaper without being responsible for the outcome.
DeleteSure, fly those older 737's but when booking online I will exercise whatever level of exclusion I have available. And that is more often just Boeing vs Airbus rather than a whole list of plane models.
Anyone who cares more about their safety than the minute details of particular models would be well advised to avoid Boeing Because it eliminates bad planes and also eliminated most United flights which uses Boeing almost exclusively.
Flying a 737 on any US commercial carrier is many, many times safer than driving. The 737 is the most produced and one of the safest commercial airplanes ever made. There certainly were problems with the 737 Max 'anti pitch up' software, but Airbus has their own issues with automation, too. At least maintenance crews have learned the hard way not to paint over the angle of attack sensors, which was the primary cause of the Max crashes. I just flew a 737 Extended Range to Mexico and a second one back home with no issues. There are many thousands of 737 flights in the US every day. I couldn't find an listing of 737 crash with fatalities in the US for more than 20 years.
DeleteThe CEO wrote a letter? That makes everything A OK by me!
ReplyDeleteRemember when the CEO of United said that diversity was more important than ability.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of Ron White's "Near Miss Plane Crash":
ReplyDelete"Hey, man, if one of the engines fail, have far will the other one take us?"
Ron: "All the way to the scene of the crash.
I bet we beat the paramedics by half an hour."
I used to fly a lot since my dad worked for Pan Am in the 1950s when passengers were white, men wore suits, women dresses and a TSA situation was a joke. In later years I flew overseas. Now at my age I don't fly anymore, not because I'm afraid of dropping out of the sky but because of all the fucking assholes who should be in a zoo not on an airplane. Now the only thing about flying I enjoy are the George Carlin musings like:
ReplyDelete“Look, the planes nearly missed.” “Shouldn't that be nearly hit?” The announcement might tell you your flight has been delayed because of a “change of equipment…” BROKEN PLANE!!!
Airliners are giant flying germ tubes.
DeleteOperative word: zoo. Besides the passengers, don't leave out DEI line workers, QA techs, maintenance, flight crews, TSA agents, etc. Just "sayin'".
DeleteThere certainly is an infection risk from traveling from the high concentration of people in airports and exposure to new pathogens, but the air inside a commercial aircraft is much cleaner than one might think. The pressurization system, which uses bleed air from the jet engine compressor stages provides enough air volume for many complete air changes per hour in the cabin, more than you would get in many public buildings.
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