An emergency slide that fell off of a Delta passenger jet shortly after take-off last week reportedly turned up two days later outside the home of a lawyer whose firm is coincidently suing the Boeing plane manufacturer over safety issues.
Jake Bissell-Linsk, whose firm filed suit against Boeing after one of its planes lost a door plug mid-air back in January, said he discovered the deflated slide washed up outside his oceanfront home near New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday.
“I didn’t want to touch it but I got close enough to get a close look at it,” he told The New York Post of the bizarre discovery along the shore of Belle Harbor, Queens.
Not a good look.
Bit of an understatement, that.
How have they not grounded every Boeing plane at this point? The company needs to be federalized.
The plane is 34 years old. It’s probably more likely it’s Delta’s lack of maintenance than a problem with Boeing.
While I know you’re correct… And there is definitely going to be a media bias in reporting… There seems to have been a remarkably large number of issues with Boeing planes specifically lately.
Shitting on Boeing is getting clicks. So the news keeps reporting on every bit of anything they can find related to them. The incident rate isn’t going up. At the same time there have been a few issues with Airbus planes but that’s not getting engagement as much so the news isn’t focusing on them.
Not all Boeing planes are garbage, and they are the cornerstone of domestic air travel. If we suddenly stopped flying them, ticket prices would triple. We have a lot of airbuses and some aging McDonnell Douglas planes, but Boeing probably makes up about half of American passenger planes.
Why have they not grounded every car? Despite all the safety problems at boeing, they are still way safer than automobiles.
Because nobody likes lawyers. If an emergency slide falls on a lawyer, so be it.
I dunno, my lawyer rocks
They are probably an exception that confirms the rule.
I know a few lawyers who are awesome.
None of them are particularly rich. Two of them have spent 2 of the last 3 years at the southern border doing immigration cases (I’d say pro bono, but they get paid a pittance by the Feds…. Basically enough to cover a hotel room.)
Do you seriously objecting the joke?
Oceanfront huh
Not sure what you are trying to say there.
They don’t like rich lawyers. Few do.
But we do want lawyers skilled enough to be able to hurt major corporations, and then expect them to work cheap.
It’s not all that hard to understand when you’re downtrodden. But it is a bit counterproductive in my opinion. (That aimed at the original commenter, not at you, though I am sympathetic to both viewpoints.)
Ah that makes sense.
