Boeing 737

[tp4tissue]

Scary stuff.

TBH humans really shouldn't be flying around like that. With internet, it's all but unnecessary.

Boats.. we should do boats.., you want to go to europe, 1 week by boat. 



To think Tp4 almost bough Airline stonks couple months back. /phewwww..

[fohat.digs]

Boeing **** the bed badly with the 737-Max. Aeronautical engineers spend thousands of hours experimenting and testing to get everything about an airplane perfectly balanced so that there are no surprises. But then, inexplicably, they decided to replace the engines with much larger and heavier engines for the "Max" version, screwing up the aerodynamics royally.

Then they tried to compensate by installing computer software (that pilots couldn't override) to constantly raise the nose since the weight and drag of the massive new engines were always making the plane want to dive.

PR department tried to frame it as a "software problem" but it was nothing of the kind.
 

[tp4tissue]

Boen' done themselves in with the Corporate over_reach / self_regulation push.

Like i'iz saz.. Why fly, when you can go by Boat.  It's not like we're going to have ocean ice much longer anyway.

[Leslieann]

This was not a Max, it was an older model.
If you wonder why they never found MH 370 (a 777 model), take a look at the pictures of the crash site of this one and keep in mind that at high speed, water is as hard as concrete.

Also if you're waiting for the black box, don't, this impact was nearly twice what they're designed to handle.
We're going to have to wait for them to piece the bits back together which will could possibly take years.