Airbus Loses engine panel: "A Delta Air Lines flight over the weekend was cut short and the plane returned to Salt Lake City after a panel behind one of the two engines fell off during...

ecblackiii Loc: Maryland

"A Delta Air Lines flight over the weekend was cut short and the plane returned to Salt Lake City after a panel behind one of the two engines fell off during takeoff.

"The Airbus A330neo jetliner left for Amsterdam on Sunday but got only as far as the Montana-North Dakota boundary before turning back and landing in Salt Lake City three hours later."

Toment Loc: FL, IL

Boeing? Airbus? We’ll be flying Curtiss planes soon😄

Equus Loc: Puget Sound

Toment wrote:

Boeing? Airbus? We’ll be flying Curtiss planes soon😄

Curtiss was pretty good if a little drafty.

tramsey Loc: Texas

I wonder why we didn't hear about this stuff ten years ago like we do now? Is it because maintenance was more careful or was it because the manufacturers gave a rib about their product and not as much about their bottom line?

wrangler5 Loc: Missouri

tramsey wrote:

I wonder why we didn't hear about this stuff ten years ago like we do now? Is it because maintenance was more careful or was it because the manufacturers gave a rib about their product and not as much about their bottom line?

I'd guess that a panel falling off a plane that has been in service for more than a few months is far more likely to be the fault of someone in maintenance than the manufacturer.

f8lee Loc: New Mexico

wrangler5 wrote:

I'd guess that a panel falling off a plane that has been in service for more than a few months is far more likely to be the fault of someone in maintenance than the manufacturer.

Agreed, and that makes one wonder if it was a DEI hire who screwed the pooch.

alexol

f8lee wrote:

Agreed, and that makes one wonder if it was a DEI hire who screwed the pooch.

Really? Or maybe just some entitled over-paid disinterested white guy...

FFS, why does everything have to become political/racist?

A mistake of some kind was made somewhere, somehow, by an unknown person in unknown circumstances, and the first uninformed "conclusion" is that it was related to race.

f8lee Loc: New Mexico

alexol wrote:

Really? Or maybe just some entitled over-paid disinterested white guy...

FFS, why does everything have to become political/racist?

A mistake of some kind was made somewhere, somehow, by an unknown person in unknown circumstances, and the first uninformed "conclusion" is that it was related to race.

First, Einstein, DEI is not about race - it's about filling positions with less capable people who check whatever the box du jour is.

Second, seems as though there has been quite an uptick in incidents of late, dontcha' think? Or, dontcha'? Now I know correlation does not mean causation, but it does bring up the concept.

Equus Loc: Puget Sound

alexol wrote:

Really? Or maybe just some entitled over-paid disinterested white guy...

FFS, why does everything have to become political/racist?

A mistake of some kind was made somewhere, somehow, by an unknown person in unknown circumstances, and the first uninformed "conclusion" is that it was related to race.

olddutch Loc: Beloit, Wisconsin

I will stick to Boeing, Even if it is a PT-17.....