Posted on 05/09/2024 8:04:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
Panicked passengers were forced to flee the burning wreckage of a Boeing 737 when it skidded off the runway in Senegal early Thursday, video showed.
Eleven people were injured – four of them severely – when the Air Senegal flight headed from Bamako, Mali, crashed mid-lift off from Dakar’s Blaise Diagne airport shortly after 1 a.m. local time, the BBC reported.
One of the 78 passengers was seen scrambling away from the Boeing 737-300 aircraft as it went up in flames, one clip from the scene showed.
The plane – which Air Senegal chartered from the Senegalese carrier Transair – was seen with a large hole in the left engine as first responders extinguished the blaze.
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737-300
The prototype of the -300 rolled out of the Renton plant on January 17, 1984, and first flew on February 24, 1984.[10] After it received its flight certification on November 14, 1984, USAir received the first aircraft on November 28.[1] It proved a very popular aircraft: Boeing received 252 orders in 1985, and over 1,000 throughout its production.[10] The 300 series remained in production until the last aircraft was delivered to Air New Zealand on December 17, 1999,[11] registration ZK-NGJ. By then, 1,113 Boeing 737-300s had been produced over more than 15 years.
Usually bad maintenance..........
I have seen a lot of times where a maintenance issue creates a problem for the flight crew that is able to be overcome, but...humans being human, they make the wrong choices in trying to deal with it.
Hard to get around that. Even the best pilots have mad mistakes...
I knew I'd catch at least one...
“How can a company get this bad this fast?
You’d think Biden was the CEO.”
I am no fan of Boeing, but how did things get this bad at FR in such a short time. Blaming Boeing for everything even when there is no proof they did anything wrong in these instances. Knowing that it is very likely that someone or something else is to blame. And yet we have a Zombie chorus here just chanting a narrative like puppets on a string. Some of it apparently due to a loss of reasoning. Some of it is due to intentional disruption. But it is so hard to watch the decline.
“Cut costs, boost efficiency, and improve the quality and speed of your planning and decision-making with one of our targeted maintenance solutions.”
https://services.boeing.com/maintenance-engineering
Hey, someone has to hire people who are incompetent and didn’t ear their spot... /s
““Cut costs, boost efficiency, and improve the quality and speed of your planning and decision-making with one of our targeted maintenance solutions.”
https://services.boeing.com/maintenance-engineering“
Obviously you cut and paste without understanding what Boeing does not do!
That should buff right out.
I never seen an airplane with running rust as an issue, but here it sets.
I sure hope the ten new Boeing whistleblowers have their life insurance policies paid up. Haha, just kidding. Mostly.
John Barnett, 62, a quality control engineer at Boeing for 32 years, and a witness in ongoing litigation, was found dead at a hotel in March, reportedly from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was found in his truck while staying at a hotel while in town to give a deposition in the case. It seemed like a strange time to kill himself.
Here’s a link to a recent clip where Mr. Barnett discussed some of the serious problems with a Spirit Airlines Boeing inspection. He told The Wall Street Journal in January that Boeing fired him in April 2023 for pointing out that holes in jet fuselages were drilled wrong. He was quite chatty about Boeing’s many safety problems, actually.
Then last week, the whistleblower bodycount ticked up again after Joshua Dean, 45, who worked as a quality auditor at Spirit AeroSystems, died suddenly after a “short illness.” The healthy, athletic auditor and whistleblower had an ‘active lifestyle.’ But alas, he died in the hospital after getting a “fast-moving infection” arising from the flu, which quickly became MRSA, and then he got pneumonia on top of all that and it was all over.
The lawyers for the two dead whistleblowers told The Independent of at least ten more Boeing whistleblowers, both former and current employees who, the lawyers emphasized, are not suicidal and are “safe and sound.” Hopefully they’re in witness protection.
Ain't the first time that has ever happened particularly when you are in a hospital for any period of time.
That’s all very sensational, but has nothing to do with bad piloting and bad maintenance.
Bad piloting and bad maintenance have nothing to do with shoddy construction.
The endless “Boeing Sux” stories are about bad piloting and bad maintenance.
Groupthink and hysteria are dangerous things. They gave us covidiocy. Remeber?
“I knew I’d catch at least one...”
What do you mean?
I knew it was a maintenance issue, not a Boeing aircraft design issue. That’s why I added the “(jk)” (means just kidding).
Jacquerie, what you describe in post #52 may indeed be fully factual, but it doesn't have anything to do with a foreign carrier whose plane skids on a wet runway and is damaged because the pilot is poorly trained or the maintenance crew in Sri Lanka didn't service the brakes or tires adequately. Now if they investigate, and find the system is faulty, that would be a different thing. But right now, you apply Occam's razor, poor design is not at the top of the list.
The door plugs stayed intact...
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