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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I think I will be forgoing air travel for the foreseeable future.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Delta flight 446 landed safely, and the plane taxied to the gate on its own with no sign of a fire at that point. Passengers were able to deplane normally...

    Delta said customers were reaccommodated on a new aircraft to their final destinations.

    This was little more than an inconvenience for the passengers. The news always uses deliberately alarming language to entice a click. There was an actual engine fire this time, but it was a small one that appears to be out before they landed.

    Commercial aviation is orders of magnitude safer than cars. The occasional incident is national news because they are rare. Fatal car crashes happen so often they aren't even newsworthy.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    Oh, just a small engine fire. Gotcha. My bad, that’s cool then. And definitely no recent pattern of problems with Boeing planes either, so that’s also good.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago*

    The engine is located far from the passenger cabin and it has fire suppression systems that probably put out the fire in flight. They have procedures for this that handled the situation so well they didn't even have to evacuate the aircraft.

    Fires are a risk with any combustion engine. Clearly they mitigated that risk effectively since no one was in any real danger

    Boeing doesn't make the engines.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    So do you want me to compile a list of recent vehicle recalls and the alarming amount of cars that just spontaneously catch on fire?

    How about the amount of biking deaths?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you search up ATC recordings on YouTube you can find that go arounds like this are fairly common. If you're really afraid of Boeing's systemic issues, understandably, avoid flights with Boeing planes and you'd be fine.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    An engine fire of any size is a serious emergency, and Boeing's recent safety record should get executives fired if not jailed. That said, commercial aviation remains the safest way to travel long distances. Incidents like this are newsworthy precisely because they are so rare.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Engines have nothing to do with the airframe.

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