Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver::A United Airlines flight to Boston was diverted to Denver because of an issue with the plane’s wing.
“Sitting right on the wing and the noise after reaching altitude was much louder than normal. I opened the window to see the wing looking like this,” user octopus_hug wrote. "How panicked should I be? Do I need to tell a flight crew member?
Holy shit, redditors are a special breed. Yes, you should probably tell someone.
I should go and find the comment.
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“hi sorry, I’m sitting in 20A, and, I don’t want to make a fuss or anything, but I’d appreciate if you took a peek out of my window,… Put me at ease that something I noticed on the wing is normal.”
“Here, I took a photo, mind looking?”
That’s far better than going “HOLY SHIT THE WING IS FALLING OFF!”. In an emergency you need to be calm but decisive, and not spread panic.
I saw the wing fall off a plane full of people but posted it for points instead of helping. AITA?
Now, all the AI are going to wonder how panicked they should be if their plane disassembled mid-flight
The right thing to do is to post it on X and @ the airline.
That’s why oanss have two wings, duh. for redundant sea.
At the rate they’re going, they’re gonna have to start designing four-winged planes.
They did that during the first world war.
What a bunch of fokkers.
Redundant sea, right next to the north sea obviously!
Well with that wing is the sea you get at some point in the future.
So with airlines needing bailouts, price gouging, and cost cutting affecting safety, maybe bring back the CAB era laws?
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Did they see it coming apart and say nothing to the crew?
E: another passenger did. Apparently not the clowns that had to get firsties posting to social media.
After watching Masters of the Sky this looks like just a scratch.
Does it not seem like something may have hit the wing on takeoff; a bird perhaps? This might not be anyone’s fault.
Birdstrike doesn’t cause the type of damage which would produce this type of result.
What the fuck is going on at Boeing? Are they cutting that many corners?
I wish the article said how old the plane is. A lot of Boeing jets are 50+ years old and at that point, you have to blame the airline. But this article doesn’t say.
At least in Europe, passengers jets are new because more fuel efficient at the “normal” speed. These old jets are then transformed in cargo where they go very slow so fuel efficiency goes up by other means (and the old jet is way cheaper).
This was a passenger plane so i doubt it was anywhere close to 50 years old
A 757 can be between 20 and 40 years old
This is the plane, I believe. 29 years old.
If you’ve got like 24 minutes this video gives a pretty solid explanation.
Didn’t they fire like half their QA staff a couple years ago?
This occurred on a 29 year old plane. This is almost certainly just a one-off issue. Unless it starts happening frequently with other 757s, it’s nothing to be overly concerned about. And in that case, the NTSB would figure out why it’s happening and issue a directive.
Planes are designed on a “Swiss cheese” model. Swiss cheese (as Americans call any variety resembling Emmental) is full of holes, but you can’t usually see all the way through a block of it. On a plane, something might fail and you can’t always prevent that, but you can make sure that there is enough redundancy that if something does go wrong you’re still covered. For something to cause a plane to crash, the “holes” have to line up so something could pass all the way through the “cheese.”
Very nice explanation of industry safety without getting too caught up in the details!
This “one-off” issue was spotted on dozens of 737s.
This “one-off” issue was spotted on dozens of 737s.
This issue with a damaged wing slat on this particular 29-year-old 757 was spotted on dozens of 737s? Do you have a source for that?
Unless you’re confusing this with the 737 MAX 9 door plug issue. That is not a one-off, that is a manufacturing/assembly issue. And that’s my point. The door plug situation is a systemic problem on many brand new planes, whereas this story is about a relatively small issue on a 29-year-old plane.
Something being damaged on a 757 shouldn’t shake people’s confidence in Boeing. Shit going wrong in the design and manufacturing of the 737 MAX series should.
This guy planes.
Nothing for this case at least.
It’s completely unrelated to Boeing per se. Likely a maintenance issue, maybe repair done wrong.
Dear passangers, fasten your seatbelts and don’t look on the left side. If you already did, don’t worry, self-dissasembling bus from Saint Petesburg does not fly near us, in fact this is our left wing.
Holy cow. My sisters VW Beetle did this once, too. It was quite fresh out of inspection/repair, and whatever those guys did to the motor, they forgot to pull the screws tight again…
Oh man, I would piss myself laughing if this happened in front of me.
Fuck Boeing. And fuck United too.
This is so good. So many layers in that one joke.
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More discussion here: https://avherald.com/h?article=51530e9d&opt=0
This is the best summary I could come up with:
BOSTON - A United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Boston was diverted to Denver on Monday because of an issue with the plane’s wing - and a worried passenger on board captured the apparent problem on video.
“Just about to land in Denver with the wing coming apart on the plane,” Kevin Clarke says in a video shared with CBS News.
Clarke said the wing issue became apparent after takeoff from San Francisco.
The passengers were put on a different plane and landed in Boston early Tuesday morning.
Boeing has been under scrutiny since a door panel on a different kind of aircraft, a 737 Max 9, blew off during an Alaska Airlines flight in January.
Earlier this month, the head of the FAA pledged to use more people to monitor aircraft manufacturing and hold Boeing accountable for any safety rule violations.
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Damn, imagine working in the marketing department of Boeing.
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It was simply changed to, “If it’s Boeing, I’m not going.”
I know a guy who works at Boeing
He says right now it’s pretty rough due to recent events but things were finally cooling down
That was before this news broke
He’s probably going to have a shitty day tomorrow with more visits from the FAA and other regulators
A believe there have been quite a few articles published with interviews from former Boeing execs with who were around when the company went from engineer ran to finance ran. One of them I remember the former executive said part of why they will continue to not trust Boeing is they are only grounding planes to solve one problem at a time after it’s caused massive failure and not trying to engineer and solve all the problems they can so these failures stop happening mid flight.
You take the population of vehicles in the field (A) and multiple it by the probable rate of failure (B), then multiply the result by the average cost of an out-of-court settlement ©.
A times B times C equals X. This is what it will cost if we don’t initiate a recall. If X is greater than the cost of a recall, we recall the cars and no one gets hurt. If X is less than the cost of a recall, then we don’t recall.
I don’t feel bad for your friend. One bad day at work or 100+ people dying?
“When it hasn’t been your day, your week, your month, or even your year.”
I’ll be there for youuu
When the plane starts to stall
I’ll be there for youuu
When the wing is no more
I’ll be there for youuu
To state the claims are untruuu-uuue
So no one ever known a flight could’ve ended up this waaay
You’re out of hope, you lost your landing geeear
But our stocks are the lowest they’ve been so far this fiscal yeeeear, so
I’ve a job to doooo
Remind all the neeews
I’ve a job to doooo
Should I send this to Airbus marketing team ? 😂
Plot twist—they work for airbus.
Dude you nailed it
“It landed didnt it”
They always do!
No, sometimes they water.
There are more planes in the ocean than there are boats in the sky!
Repeat after me:
“Everything’s fine. Nothing to see here. Move along.”
Didn’t they cut all of those jobs recently? Wait. No. That was all their 900 QC door bolt retention confirmers that were ‘unnecessary’
