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re: Boeing 737 inexplicably plunges to 500’ on approach to airport in Oklahoma
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:05 am to Cosmo
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:05 am to Cosmo
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This sounds more like pilot error
That’s possible. I heard about this story listening to the Rick & Bubba show on my Bluetooth speaker a moment before looking it up and posting the story. They had audio between the pilot and tower. Almost sounded like the pilot was asleep.
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Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:06 am to dukke v
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just refuse to fly… you could tell me I had $1 million in Hawaii and the only way I could get it in time was to fly, well they can keep the money.
Especially since I can get my $1 million from Nigeria without having to travel.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:07 am to geauxtigers87
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I never thought I'd see the day where Boeing was such a trash company
It apparently went from a very well respected company that prided itself on its engineering and technological advancements to absolute shite over night with McDonnell Douglas merger.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:20 am to tadman
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What does this have to do with Boeing?
32,000 people a year die in car accidents, are you going to trash on Chevy or Toyota?
Tell that to the families and friends of the victims of the 2 737s that went down a few years ago.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:25 am to Darth_Vader
All these Boeing issues is setting the story to take out Trump …. On his private Boeing …
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:27 am to waiting4saturday
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Based off flightradar24 it descended 4,000 feet in ~ 4 minutes which is 1,000 feet a minute - looks pretty normal - I think this was more of a case of the pilots getting a road and runaway confused, not an aircraft issue. I saw a thread about this on another website that showed satellite views with the aircraft's track overlaid and it looks like they were lining up to land on a highway until the control tower asked them what the frick they were doing.
Well that's not sensational enough
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:29 am to LNCHBOX
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Well that's not sensational enough
I called out earlier, the quote the OP posted about 4k feet in a min was from another flight... He needs to update his post.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:29 am to waiting4saturday
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Based off flightradar24 it descended 4,000 feet in ~ 4 minutes which is 1,000 feet a minute - looks pretty normal - I think this was more of a case of the pilots getting a road and runaway confused, not an aircraft issue. I saw a thread about this on another website that showed satellite views with the aircraft's track overlaid and it looks like they were lining up to land on a highway until the control tower asked them what the frick they were doing.
Headline writers just needed a reason to make another headline that includes Boeing. Like the 737 the pilot drove off the runway on her own.
It's become ridiculous.
Reminds me of the media going after GM constantly back in the 80s. To the point they put fireworks in the gas tank to get a truck to catch fire when plowing another truck into the side didn't get the result they wanted.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:37 am to TigerGman
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Tell that to the families and friends of the victims of the 2 737s that went down a few years ago.
I mean, yeah i'm sure they are rightfully angry about the crashes but it still doesn't change the math of how safe commercial aviation is.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:41 am to stout
Presumption of incompetence is one of many reasons why DEI programs should end.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:43 am to BuckyCheese
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Like the 737 the pilot drove off the runway on her own.
Her you say?
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:48 am to thadcastle
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It apparently went from a very well respected company that prided itself on its engineering and technological advancements to absolute shite over night with McDonnell Douglas merger.
Who knew replacing engineer CEOs with clueless bean counters would have serious consequences
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:50 am to waiting4saturday
Yeah I think the news is making this a bigger deal than it is. Like you said it wasn’t a drastic decend. Pretty standard decend. Not ideal to fly that low over a neighborhood but probably happens more times than people know. He never lost control of the plane
This post was edited on 6/21/24 at 9:52 am
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:50 am to Lsut81
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I called out earlier, the quote the OP posted about 4k feet in a min was from another flight... He needs to update his post.
I just copied the story as the New York Post wrote it.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:52 am to JohnnyKilroy
quote:and the pronouns. We always need to know the pronouns
Need to know race, gender, and sexual preferences of pilots and maintenance staff.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:52 am to Darth_Vader
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I just copied the story as the New York Post wrote it.
Sure, completely out of context. This is the full quote
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Wednesday’s startling flying episode comes as the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed to USA Today this week it was probing how a Southwest plane dropped to just 400 feet above the Pacific Ocean en route to Hawaii in April.
That plane plunged at “an abnormally high rate of more than 4,000 feet per minute” before pilots were able to tug the plane up, according to a memo from the airline company to pilots and obtained by Bloomberg.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:53 am to waiting4saturday
quote:Oh, well that makes me feel better. It was just a pilot confusing a highway for the fricking runway. Common mistake.
Based off flightradar24 it descended 4,000 feet in ~ 4 minutes which is 1,000 feet a minute - looks pretty normal - I think this was more of a case of the pilots getting a road and runaway confused, not an aircraft issue. I saw a thread about this on another website that showed satellite views with the aircraft's track overlaid and it looks like they were lining up to land on a highway until the control tower asked them what the frick they were doing.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:55 am to wileyjones
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I’m no mathematician, but doesn’t it have to “plunge to 0 feet” in order to land?
You’re no wordsmith either. Plunge has a distinct meaning, and a plane landing does nothing of the sort.
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:57 am to Darth_Vader
Why is Boeing even in headline?
Posted on 6/21/24 at 9:57 am to Stevo
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Why is Boeing even in headline?
clickbait
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