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[+] -14 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Gizmodo trash nonsense bait. Literally perfect record since 2011 operating thousands of these planes.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago*

    True, but that is what the whistleblower warned. He said the planes would fail randomly after around 10-12 years approximately.

    He was a quaility check engineer at the assembly lines (or sth similar) where the workers were forced to assemble too quickly which caused a lot of small foreign bodies (residue) to enter components with wiring that would degrade due to this.

    He also said that would degrade those components much faster than expected and told to the airplane operators causing less checks and earlier failure (than was told by Boeing)

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Defects don't manifest themselves immediately after they roll off the assembly line. They cause premature systemic failures after a number of years of operations. These aircraft should last 20-30 years before failure.

    No I will not give you a source. I think it was a verge article.

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

    Perfect record except the crash....

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Crash once, sh sh sh shame on you. Crash twice, yew, yew, you can't crash me again!

    Thanks Mr. Bush! Exactly the point!

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

    Lemme preface by saying Bush was a monster who killed countless innocents.

    But I do have nostalgia for when that particular statement was the dumbest thing a US president said in public.

    “If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations, your house just went down 75 percent in value,” Trump said. “And they say the noise causes cancer. You tell me that one, okay? Rerrrr rerrrr!”

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