and of course... its a boeing lmao.

Flying in the US is increasingly resembling flying in Russia.

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

Well that is mecharobotassassin creepy.

Just testing if people will pay extra for a nonexploding plane.

The Boeing 767

Was it just surging or like a compressor stall or something? FOD like a bird ingestion or something?

I mean, Boeing has/had quality problems, serious ethical failures, but also birds exist.

(I’m not good at explaining this, maybe should have found an explanation online somewhere instead.) You know those stages of a combustion engine - intake, compression, ignition, exhaust, all happening in sequence in an engine’s cylinders? Turbine engines do them too, but in a straight line and constantly. The front of the engine is obviously intake, but compressor fans do the compression just using fast and powerful fans, no seals or valves needed. Ignition lights everything up, exhaust can just flow out the back. (It flows over some more fan blades that steal some power from the expanding gases and use it to keep the whole thing spinning.)

Unless something goes wrong with the compressor fan blades, that is. If compression is too weak and the ignited air/fuel mixture can flow back out the front of the engine, that’s bad. And yeah, it happens sometimes, with any engine. Almost never with both at the same time. (Both engines failing at once low to the ground is like a once in a generation thing, and yeah it’s really really bad. And really really rare.)

not defending Boeing (proud Airbus fangirl lol) but i see a lot of comments blaming Boeing. think it's an important detail that the aircraft manufacturers don't make the engines. The 767s are powered by General Electric CF6, Pratt and Whitney JT9Ds or RollsRoyce RB211s etc. Boeing didn't make them. also modern airliners have engine fire extinguisher bottles that are activated within the cockpit to put out the fire (the same handle also cuts fuel to the affected engine so the fire doesn't reignite) because the affected engine no longer functions it's best to return to the airport afterwards

Better article about this incident

Fun fact, the FAA maintains a public data base about all the reported major issues with an airframe. This plane is reported as tail number N836MH and you can look up all of the service difficulty reports Here.

Isn't delta the one who wants to use a bidding war for seats?

I can just hear the Trump reprobates advising their supporters....... "If we cut Regulations further, we something something something and MAGA! Fuck the Commies."

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

I’m not going to fly Boeing. I don’t trust the US to have enforced strong and transparent building standards. EU with Airbus all the way.

It's a good thing that the TSA will be all over this, they'll have the investigation well in ha- What's that? They've had their budget sacked to furnish massive tax cuts for multi-millionaires? /s

Sounds like a AI pricing problem.

Is this more of a thing that since there have been a bunch of plane incidents the media is reporting them more often, like the train derailments after East Palestine Ohio or is there a lot more of there happening than usual? Or both or neither, idk.