Not really a window. It’s a plug put in where an optional emergency exit door would be. (Or so I’ve read elsewhere)
This type of aircraft comes equipped with a rear emergency exit door, used mainly by international airlines, and has a seat configuration that allows for more passengers on the plane. Most U.S. airliners don’t use that configuration and design the area to appear as a window from the inside of the aircraft.
Optional?!
Imagine the lawsuits if/when somebody dies due to an onboard fire/smoke.
I wouldn’t take this seriously if it weren’t for the fact that Boeing’s propensity for up-charging for basic safety features didn’t contribute to the crashes of two 737 Max 8.
It’s optional based on on the interior buildout of the plane. It depends on the number of seats and seating arrangement. When it’s not needed for an order, they bolt in a “plug” that fills the space where the door would have been.
If it’s Boeing, I’m not going.
Yes it was a Max 9, and yes wait for the aviation herald report for details.
We usually start New Year’s with good news and promises we won’t keep… Not with total failures. This is not good for their reputation.
Well, the fact that it was still able to make the landing is remarkable. This isn’t the Comet after all…
Airplanes are crazy over engineered. Something like half the systems can fail and they’ll still be able to land the plane.
The safety regulations are written in blood, but they’ve continually prevented more disasters.
I’m sure the MAX 9 is going to have a lot of investigation done very soon.
According to this news site, it’s only a 2 month old plane. https://abc30.com/alaska-airlines-flight-emergency-landing-plane-window-blown-out-ontario-california/14284437/
Capitalism views maintenance as an expense, not revenue-in.
This probably has nothing to do with maintenance. The plane was only two months old. Enough for some inspections, but nobody would suspect or look for cracks in the fuselage at that point. So it’s probably a manufacturing issue.
Anything views quality control as an expense.
Are you even listening to yourself?
Aircraft maintenance is heavily regulated. This was a new plane, and the result of the failure is that all planes of that type have been grounded.
There are plenty of issues caused by corporate greed and lack of regulation as it is, but this isn’t one of them.
The story of the 737 MAX is corporate greed. It’s just by Boening, not the operator. However, the operators heavily influence the choices by Boening.
You know what, you’re right. ‘Le capitalism bad’. Now what? What the fuck do you propose? Get us to the revolution man. C’mon. Let’s go. I’m ready! Let’s goooooo. Tell us what to do next! I’m listening.
Edit: wait, so I’m asking what we should do about it and I’m getting downvotes? I thought capitalism was bad. Shouldn’t we DO something about it? Or is it just performative for you guys? Pedal to the metal. Put up or shut up. Let’s do this. I’m ready…let’s GOOOO
The reason nobody is engaging with you is because you’re clearly completely brainrotted and arguing in bad faith.
You want a fucking answer, shithead? It starts with the dictatorship of the proletariat, a true democracy. That starts with strong worker unions. That starts with universal healthcare untied to employment. Better education for the people in a world shifting largely to trades and higher education instead of menial data entry or service jobs. Elimination of FPTP elections.
All things that can be easily accomplished via legislation, TODAY without total societal upheaval.
Now are you gonna help achieve that by attending city council meetings and voting for leftist parties so they can get increasing levels of federal election funding?
No, you’re not. You’re just going to reply with some bullshit degenerate rant that makes no logical sense about how you love fascism and having a foot in your mouth.
So shut the fuck up, shove it up your ass, and go fuck yourself you fucking piece of shit.
You just wrote more vacuous stuff. “CHANGE LEGISLATION”. I like all the points you brought up actually. Unions, fptp, Universal healthcare. These are all great! I’m on board. Now what? Walk us through the process. Or maybe you feel more comfortable doing more grandstanding? Via that’s all I see here on Lemmy. Two things: attack capitalism; grandstand.
Let’s try this one more time: Can you give us a concrete roadmap to effective change?
Lots of things, you never privatize critical services like water, electricity, and healthcare. And if you do privatize it, you do so with strong regulation.
You focus on worker co-ops and never allow a company to have less than 50% of the board of the directors made up of workers (see Germany), this helps prevent short-term vulture capitalism.
You never allow private business to capture the legislature and literally hand laws to the congress they own who blindly passes it, the main way things happen in a dystopia like Murica.
Just realized I’m likely feeding the troll… you can do some reading, I’ve given you a starting place. You can Google democratic socialism as well, which might help as a general starting point.
I’m not a troll but you’re just rehashing things we all already agree on. Show us the roadmap to change beyond virtue signaling on message boards. Let’s talk about more nuanced effective change rather than grandstand constantly with the same three topical catchphrase. I need more than “capitalism bad”.
Boeing and Airbus aren’t really “regulatory capture” situations. They’re basically state monopolies, and the EU and US have been suing each other for decades for unlawful competition lmao
Also they both have a HUGE defense sector that is completely tied to state policy.
Honestly the most capitalistic part about them is that everybody pretends that they’re private companies operating in a free market (because that’s a politically convenient lie in a neoliberal global economy), but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Their Defense contracts are State-Funded, and their aviation R&D is State-Funded. De facto, I’d argue they are public companies.
Unfortunately part of Boeing’s problem is that they are being slowly outcompeted by Airbus, but the U.S. government cannot let them fail. Not (only) because of corruption, but simply because Boeing’s industrial capacity is crucial to the defense sector and cannot be allowed to perish or be sold off to a foreign competitor. That political reality exists independently of who sits at Boeing’s board of directors, so changing it without doing anything about the politics might not yield appreciable results (at least not in the short term).
My take that the company should be officially nationalized and/or broken up, but both of those are political non-starters for the U.S.
I’m reading a lot of “you do” which is actually “your society should do” and which the average person has very little say in. I’m not going to be able to just march into congress and inform them that they are no longer allowed to deal with private businesses, no matter how much I may want to.
