The FAA says 171 planes must be inspected to fly again.

Boeing 737 Max planes are grounded after a hole blew in one mid-flight::The FAA ordered that 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 planes be inspected before they can return to service following the explosive decompression of an Alaska Airlines flight.

  • bionicjoeyEnglish
    223·
    6 months ago

    someone must have actively fucked with this.

    Hanlon’s Razor says otherwise. I’m going to guess this was because of cut corners. Not someone trying to sabotage an entire line of aircraft.

      • Tosti@feddit.nlEnglish
        18·
        6 months ago

        This is indeed what I meant. I don’t think that someone was actively trying to make the plane unsafe, but in the eternal quest for more profit engineers, best practices and safety reports where ignored to make the plane as cheap as possible, resulting in the current flying grounded deathtrap.

        • bionicjoeyEnglish
          5·
          6 months ago

          Okay yeah. In that case I agree. I think that still falls more on the side of stupidity than malice, but the line between the two gets blurry when greed is involved

        • fastandcurious@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          6 months ago

          If being stupid means killing almost 400 people and endangering thousands, I think it is fair to say that it is not any better than being malicious, also it would be stupid if they didn’t realize the potential flaws, but the fact is they overlooked it, which is not malice, fair enough, but it is definitely a terrible thing to do, far worse than being ‘stupid’

          • Tosti@feddit.nlEnglish
            3·
            6 months ago

            Absolutely. Hence my original call for a criminal investigation to see if they indeed accepted the risks knowingly as then they should be held accountable.

            Like I think all upper management of big oil that knew what they where doing to the planet should be tried in the Hague for Crimes against humanity. I don’t care if they are old and long retired, concentration camp guards are also still tried after all these years.

    • Patches@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      171·
      6 months ago

      Hot take: if cutting corners to an entire line of aircraft and sabotaging an entire line of aircraft produce the same results then they deserve the same punishment.

      The world would be a lot better place if we let the penny pinchers be at fault for the dangerous situations they keep causing.