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Boeing Lays Off Only Guy Who Knows How To Keep Wings On Plane (www.theonion.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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An oldie, but a goodie - in honor of the news with that Max model losing its Window at high altitudes.

It turns out engineering is important. Who could have known? /s

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I searched a bit but Google keeps pushing HARD to show more recent articles as exclusively as it can - even adding a number such as "2021" (with the quotation marks) does little to fight against that overwhelming trend. And DuckDuckGo somehow keeps showing content specifically for military rather than passenger aviation - maybe that search engine takes into account the location where the search originates?

In any case, articles about pilot shortages and concerns over aviation safety are ubiquitous and overwhelming in both number and severity of depressing content, so you will have no trouble learning about either matter, separately or conjoined. :-(

As for that specific event in the past though, it may have tied in particularly with the pandemic, so both acting as an extreme outlier and yet also somehow all the more representative of the industry as a whole, as it showcased the lengths that airlines were willing to go to in order to avoid spending money, at a time when they were under their highest stress.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I appreciate the effort, thanks for narrowing it down a bit!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I find it funny that just since this conversation a few days ago, multiple events have occurred related to it, with doors literally falling off of planes & the like, and CEOs even having to admit fault. Those pilots were right to get out while they could, before planes start literally falling out of the sky:-(. Though enshittification is not just something that affects the internet and planes - e.g. look at how many train derailments we've seen in this past year as well. It reminds me of that one guy that got fired b/c he refused to play ball and artificially lower the recorded temperatures on the train wheels. He chose integrity over his career, and he was right... though he still needs to find a way to put food onto his table:-(.