re: Alaskan Airlines plane had an issue tonight as part of the plane fell apart in the air

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Depressing but it sure as hell looks like it.

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Given I'm not speaking from personal experience. I'm not in the airline industry. But yes he's warned me about this for years. He doesn't think its just maintenance but that between maintenance losing highly skilled techs, inferior cheaper parts being used when building the planes and even down to flawed aircraft design that it very well will happen more often.

Like many in the industry he prefers Airbus over Boeing and hates that Boeing basically has the "too big to fail" status in the U.S. Even before this he has told me he refuses to fly in the MAX. He believes it's a flawed design. Of course sadly for passengers they don't know if they are in a MAX until they are on the aircraft.

He's already told me he's not looking forward to Monday. That he thinks the next few months will be a grind as the higher ups for the major airlines are going to want all their aircraft inspected for this same issue. He told me they'll get serious on safety but then after 6 months or in a year the safety standards go back to being too lax.