An oldie, but a goodie - in honor of the news with that Max model losing its Window at high altitudes.
It turns out engineering is important. Who could have known? /s
Fortunately this is The Onion and this would never never happen irl, right… RIGHT!?
Hey remember a few years ago when a good fraction of the most experienced pilots in the industry walked away from their cushy, heavily-seniority-privileged jobs, citing “safety” concerns in the airline industry? Sigh… good times, good times. :-D
I’m really curious to read more about this - can you help guide me to an article about it?
I searched a bit but Google keeps pushing HARD to show more recent articles as exclusively as it can - even adding a number such as “2021” (with the quotation marks) does little to fight against that overwhelming trend. And DuckDuckGo somehow keeps showing content specifically for military rather than passenger aviation - maybe that search engine takes into account the location where the search originates?
In any case, articles about pilot shortages and concerns over aviation safety are ubiquitous and overwhelming in both number and severity of depressing content, so you will have no trouble learning about either matter, separately or conjoined. :-(
As for that specific event in the past though, it may have tied in particularly with the pandemic, so both acting as an extreme outlier and yet also somehow all the more representative of the industry as a whole, as it showcased the lengths that airlines were willing to go to in order to avoid spending money, at a time when they were under their highest stress.
I appreciate the effort, thanks for narrowing it down a bit!
I’m so sad that the above article is almost 14 years old.
This has never been more relevant after the side panel of one their jets just “fell off” today. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/alaska-airlines-grounds-boeing-737-9-aircraft-wind-blew-out-1.7076487
At least it wasn’t the front that fell off.
Is that typical? For the front to fall off?
We’ll just tow it outside the environment.
That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
Some of them are built so the front doesn’t fall off!
