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An engine cover rips off a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737, forcing an emergency landing (www.businessinsider.com)

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[-] huginn@feddit.it 76 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Remember frequency illusion is a very real thing.

Last week an Airbus had a brake failure on approach in Seattle. Did you hear about that?

https://simpleflying.com/delta-air-lines-airbus-a220-suffers-brakes-failure/

Remember you're primed to see things that match your biases.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 7 points 5 months ago

It's a thing until it becomes so frequent that it's just background noise, which is what happened with car crashes. I took specific action to make my next big trip safer, and from everything I could find the most effective way to do that was trading out the drive to the airport for a bus ride.

[-] huginn@feddit.it 2 points 5 months ago

It's always been that frequent...

The 737-MAX issues are very high profile and represent an extremely bad issue at Boeing's core.

But these issues are nothing like that. They're constant background issues that you were ignoring before now, you'll just go back to ignoring them.

[-] invno1@lemmy.one 1 points 5 months ago

This is a maintenance issue with the airline, not a manufacturing issue. Big difference. A mechanic doing routine maintaine probably forgot to latch the cowling.