re: Flight from San Francisco forced to divert to Denver after plane's wing came apart

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so I threw my window open, peeked out the window and the whole leading edge of the wing was destroyed."

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What a drama queen. That’s just a busted slat. I understand why the pilots diverted.. but I’d been pissed it happened. The plane could have flown on and landed with no issue.

Looks like plywood.

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Most of the time it’s frustrating, like when they get your order wrong at a fast food joint.

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I'm convinced they do it on purpose. I drive past the black run establishments to patronize those run by Indians. frick them and their lackadaisical attitudes.

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but we are also starting to see a result of corporations pushing short term profits over literally everything else.
Freakin THIS x1000. Corporate "efficiency" to maximize profits at the detriment of safety is creating havoc in all areas of transportation - rail, truck, and air. I've been screaming at a corporate brick wall about a few things going on in the trucking industry but absolutely nobody will listen because profit growth is the #1 priority far above all else.

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Almost everything wrong with corporate America stems from the ill advised notion conjured up in the fevered imagination of one of the dumbest human beings ever to come into popular prominence based on ideas...that notion was "maximizing shareholder value" and that person was non other than dumb arse Milton Friedman. That moron started spewing that garbage in the early 70s but it really skyrocketed in the early 80's when a joke written on a cocktail napkin, demonstrable failed everywhere its ever been done, caught the attention of another notable moron and executive compensation became based on shareholder value instead of corporate value, 2 very different numbers. Shareholder value is based on the last 90 days and to hell with the next 90 days, let alone 10 years in the future. US Economic theory, specifically corporate finances, shifted from a focus on long term steady growth to one where a board of directors and a CEO were majority shareholders and under the moronic idea of maximized shareholder value those board members and CEOs did exactly what everyone knew they would do and lined their own nests at the expense of the company, its minority shareholders, its employees, its customer base and the overall nation. From 1978 through 2021 executive compensation jumped 1460%, 400 times what was normal in the past, because of the hair brained concept of maximizing shareholder value and legislation passed to legally facilitate said maximization of shareholder value under the guise of a rising tide and all of that bull shite.

Oh hey, it's a company that took massive bailouts and used them for shareholder value and bonuses rather than maintenance and ground crew training!

Shocked, I tell ya - shocked

I read Fox News but this headline was one of their worst click bait headlines.

The wing did not "come apart" but you don't find that out until deep into the story

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What does a possible bird strike have to do with manufacturing, and it was a 757 manufacturered around '94.

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Airbus using the media to trash Boeing. If it was a bird strike, the damage wasn't that bad.

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Things like this, and it’s happening more and more now, have completely erased my faith in commercial air travel.

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What was your faith like in the 70s and 80s when commercial jets crashed on the reg with little/no survivors?

Flew a United Denver to SFO last week on a 757-200. That plane was old as heck. It still had the front to front facing first class seats. I haven't seen those in years. I half expected to die on that plane.


It could have been me.

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That’s a 30 year old plane

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i get what you're saying, but the issue isnt the engineering and construction done 30 years ago, it's the upkeep, inspections, and maintenance that are done every day.