Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Boeing’s crappy planes killed hundreds of people, true. But that was years ago!

So a door blew off a plane. Did it crash? No.

So a tire fell off a plane. Did it crash? No.

It goes to show that even after a quarter century of decline, there’s enough engineering savvy to at least make some things fail to a known condition.



> So a door blew off a plane. Did it crash? No.

The only thing preventing a fatality was pure luck of seating arrangement.


They killed 346 people just 3 years ago due to badly managed MCAS software testing. I guess I can't disagree as you as years is plural and, try, more than one year ago.


Hey, them engineers are so good that, in the past, they even had a 737 transform mid-flight to a convertible. Without crashing!




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: