A Boeing 777 lost a wheel taking off from San Francisco and a 737 had a landing gear failure this morning. This is the fourth incident United Airlines has had this week. A 757 suffering an engine failure on descent into SFO and Boeing 737-900 from United at Houston suffering an engine stall.
This is along with the recent door plug in flight failure.
BREAKING: A Boeing, $BA, 737 rolled off the runway in Houston this morning after issues with its landing gear, with no injuries, per ABC: pic.twitter.com/ECywg1aLUz
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Ever see the 1970 movie “Airport”? (I think it’s a really good movie) but it was panned at the time as a 2-1/2 hour Boing commercial. (No kidding, that term was actually used in the press). Boing had a well deserved reputation of making very reliable planes that were very, very tough. What went wrong at Boing?
So does Boing at the manufacturing level have “the problem”, or is it those who service their jets? Honestly, (IMO) so many such “problems” showing up across a multitude of different engineering “issues” point to a “source of manufacture” issue. Meaning, Boing needs to gets its s*** together once again. And they used to have it together oh so well…
I swear, Boeing should change their name to Lemming.
Brian – your comments system is awful mate and I love this site.
Can’t you do better? You get a lot of high profile visitors, perhaps one of them could help or do we need to do a go fund me or something?
I swear Boeing should change their name to Lemming.
Boeing price link
https://www.statista.com/statistics/273941/prices-of-boeing-aircraft-by-type/
At this rate, they will have to start buying C919s from China to get reliable planes.
Or convince SpaceX to compete here. 737s somehow cost $90-130M. https://www.autospies.com/news/index.aspx?submissionid=120215
While much larger and more capable rockets are on course to be a small fraction of that price.
Just out of curiosity, what is the probability of a cluster of events like this occurring with one vendor and one airline in such a short timespan?
All of this is with United? Its sounds more like a United than a Boeing problem. Perhaps United is have issues with maintenance. United may well be untied.
The door plug thing was Alaska Airlines and Boeing, but the other four events over a week are all Boeing product operated by United. It’ll eventually show up, but I made another comment asking what the probability of that was. Bet around winning the lottery or getting struck by lightning. Certainly deserves and investigation of the Boeing product and more importantly United’s maintenance and operations procedures. Off the cuff, this doesn’t sound like chance.