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[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Stranded in Davos, Switzerland. What a hellish nightmare. I'm praying for Secretary Blinken's safe and timely return. Give 'em hell, Tony!

[–] generalpotato 4 points 11 months ago

“Bring him home”

[–] aseriesoftubes 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

More good news for Boeing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Boeing really seems like they have their shit together.

[–] Death_Equity 8 points 11 months ago

Unfortunately they put their shit together in the shape of an airframe.

[–] mhague 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Stranded, but with a personal jet coming to pick him up. How terrible, hope he finds a way to get back.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

Can't have Blinken stranded in the land of the Swiss shudder

Don't you know Switzerland is basically a Chinese pawn now?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Something tells me Boeing isn't getting that exception they asked for.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Lmao Boeing is in some deep(er) shit now

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

wow, Boeing is really having a terrible month.

good. they really have it coming.

[–] i2ndshenanigans 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Planes require lots of maintenance not sure why everyone is saying Boeing is the cause of this one. How old is the modified aircraft? If it’s a few months off the assembly line and it’s having maintenance issue that is grounding the aircraft then yea give Boeing some shit but airlines/operators have to take planes out of service all the time for maintenance, shoot even the military does it.

I worked in Aerospace for a few years and the company I worked for did a lot of work for Boeing, mostly on the Apache program, Boeing definitely has its issues but maintenance issues are not a Boeing only issue.

[–] shalafi 2 points 11 months ago

due to a critical error with his aircraft

Which can mean 452,212 different things. This sort of thing happens all the time. People don't notice because they fly commercial and another plane gets swapped in. Blinken came in one plane, not a fleet.

Apologies for interrupting the "Boeing is the worst company in the history of forever" circle jerk.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago