Posted on 03/21/2024 5:26:29 AM PDT by V_TWIN
A Boeing-made Delta Airlines flight out of Aruba and bound for Atlanta was forced to turn back and make an emergency landing after an engine blow out on take-off.
The Pilot of the Boeing 737 900 circled the Caribbean island four times before coming back into land following the 'mechanical issue'.
A spokesperson for the airline told DailyMail.com that there were 168 passengers on board in addition to four flight attendants and two pilots. The passengers were forced to spend an extra night in Aruba before being flown out on Wednesday.
Delta flight DL581 from Aruba to Atlanta experienced a mechanical issue shortly after takeoff. It landed safely and returned to the gate uneventfully,' the spokesperson said.
'Delta teams are working to get our customers to their final destinations as quickly and safely as possible and we apologize for the delay in their travels.'
One passenger described the ordeal on Reddit saying that 'one of the engines blew up mid takeoff, we circled Aruba four times and emergency landed.'
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Someone in maintenance screwed the pooch.
If you’ve got the time, an extra night in Aruba ain’t bad. Unless your name is Holloway.
These kinds of things should be making everyone nervous about flying........
Oh I’ve been....the problem with Aruba is there’s not enough jewelry stores! 😂
It is a maintenance issue.
Look at their hiring practices, not the brand of airplane.
Okay it looks to me like somebody is not liking Boeing aircraft anymore. Did they refuse to contribute to Biden campaign? It’s hard to believe that suddenly they’re having all these failures, after Decades of success and safe flights
No, the press is going after Boeing because they are trying to confuse the issue for whoever is paying them (probably a competitor like China C-919 or France’s A-320). ALL of the issues that are being reported as manufacturing issues seem to be maintenance issues. The lines have been filled with unqualified DEI employees or EOC employees and the Press is trying to shift the blame to Boeing, in my opinion. Maybe it is our government that is doing this hatchet job. Who knows? I recommend that everyone takes a very skeptical eye with what the see or read from the media. It probably is a lie. Instead of their motto “All the News that is fit to print”, it should be “All the propaganda that is fit and profitable to print”...Just sayin’.
I was working for an Israeli company that shared a contract with General Dynamics. Our company built the “white” section of the product and GD integrated that into the “black” section. We had an employee who was sabotaging the product. It cost us thousands of dollars. Then, he pee’d in a sealed enclosure just prior to sealing. That narrowed it down and I wanted to have a genetic analysis done so we could finally locate him and fire him. They wouldn’t let me. They were terrified of being accused of racism.
They were racist, but the fact that the employees had access to infinite legal help kept it from appearing on the production floor. Eventually, the sabotage stopped. Either he stopped, doubtful, or got fired or, more likely, quit or ended up in jail. (The jail thing happened often.)
What I’m saying is, just one of the thousands of employees at Boeing could cause infinite and varied problems. How many times have you worked with someone who absolutely hated the company you worked for? I think it is fairly common. Throw in a bit of sociopathy and there’s no telling what someone might do.
A study I read from HR essentially said, “Hire only white or Asian middle-class heterosexuals and you’ll be fine.” That isn’t what the study actually said, but if you read all the data those were the ones least likely to sabotage or sue.
... which should clear up the skies some for the elitists to fly in their private jets.
“’Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”
Ian Fleming
Sorry about that......looks like I’m a victim of spellcheck......again 😏
Boeing is now at the mercy of their customers. Air lins can claim emergencies when ever they want to get leverage with Boeing.
It appears that something is not right with airline maintenance.
After 37 years in aviation maintenance, everytime I hear about these boeing issues I suspect it’s a maintenance problem.....specifically lack of PREVENTATIVE maintenance.
Also, where the heck is the Quality department??? 🤷
I heard after the door blow out event the NTSB requested the maintenance records and Boeing refused to immediately turn them over.
That looked suspicious to me just other face of it.
Yes, it would be a maintenance problem, not a Boeing problem. The engines for the 737-900 are made by a joint venture with General Electric and Safran (a French Company). It is up to the individual company to maintain the engines once the aircraft is delivered.
The airlines are catching up to other industries who've suffered for years from policies rewarding the incompetent due to programs such as Didn't Earn It (DEI), widening the gap between compensation and skill sets required.
Commercial air travel in particular has changed due to commoditization, accelerated with the rise of fractional jet ownership which pulls away first-class customers, lowering the funds available for compensation of maintenance employees.
As more capable staff retire, leave before retiring, or choose other jobs instead of entering aircraft maintenance, expect to see more of these problems.
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