this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2024
521 points (98.7% liked)

Technology

60110 readers
3526 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s
[email protected]
[email protected]
L4s
enu
521
Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver (www.cbsnews.com)
submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology
96 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver::A United Airlines flight to Boston was diverted to Denver because of an issue with the plane's wing.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There are Douglas DC3s still flying in commercial service (not many, but a few). Those were built in the 1940s. 2004 is not all that old a plane.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 11 points 10 months ago

Still, it's old enough that problems like this should be attributed to lack of maintenance on the airline's part rather than an issue in the design or manufacture of the plane.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Point is, it's a maintenance issue, the media is quick to shit on Boeing. I mean they earned that but try to have integrity while reporting.