Would you get on a Boeing Airplane?

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Yes....Flying is by far the safest way to travel.

But ummm.....Would you get on a Boeing Airplane?



As we know getting on a Boeing Airplane (thanks to their incompetence and "cost cutting" measures) takes a little bit of guts. And now it seems like Boeing planes are not only having their doors fly off during flights, but crashing like crazy. And yes I know some have nothing to do with Boeing's greed and incompetence, like Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243 (shot down by Russia) from a couple days ago. But so many of their planes "falling from the sky" I might stay clear of getting on a Boeing Airplane.

I mean we just had another crash in South Korea and yes who knows what the cause was, but it looks like an engine "blew out" and the landing gear malfunctioned. Way too early to know if Boeing fucked up again, but I would not be shocked if it was another Boeing fuck up.


Oh and side note, speaking of the Jeju Air Flight 7C2216 in South Korea that happened yesterday, take a look at this video.....

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Here is a question......why the fuck is there a giant mound/brick wall fence at the end of the runway? Behind the wall is a field, no houses, no buildings, no highway, just a field. Not saying there would have been zero fatalities, but that wall killed pretty much everybody on that aircraft. I get that you need a fence around a major airport to keep people out, but wouldn't a barb wire fence do the job? And I get why at some airports you need a wall or barrier at the end of the runway (major highway for example). But why the hell do you need a giant wall at the end of a runway when there is only a field on the other side? That crash would not have been anywhere near as bad if it were not for that barrier. That was a massive plane and it just disintegrated when it ran out of runway.




Anyway....back to my point......would you get on a Boeing Airplane? For me.....I think I'd go with a no.
 
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And yes I know, I know, way way way way more dangerous to travel in a car, boat, train, bus, etc, etc, etc.



"According to the National Transportation Safety Board, the odds of dying in a car crash as a driver are 1 in 114, and 1 in 654 as a passenger. The odds of dying in a Commercial plane crash are 1 in 188,364."
 

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100% been flying on Boeing across the country all year. United, Southwest and Delta. Do you know how many Boeing flights are flown daily around the world?
 

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Do you know how many Boeing flights are flown daily around the world?

Yes, many Boeing flights take off and land daily. Odds of dying on one of em are remote.



But when you had an asshole like this running the company and safety meant fuck all to them........just to be on the "safe side" I might not sit in an exit row. I prefer the doors on the plane I am on to stay intact.

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There is a new CEO now, so maybe in a year or so I might feel safe getting on a Boeing aircraft.
 
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I mean we just had another crash in South Korea and yes who knows what the cause was, but it looks like an engine "blew out" and the landing gear malfunctioned. Way too early to know if Boeing fucked up again, but I would not be shocked if it was another Boeing fuck up.
while certainly not defending boeing, if it was an engine issue, boeing doesn't make the engines. that said, there are certainly components that boeing DOES make that could fail and lead to engine failure. but those planes can safely fly with one engine.

i've become obsessed with Air Disasters (Canadian show!) soooo... i'm pretty much an expert at this now.
 

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i've become obsessed with Air Disasters (Canadian show!) soooo... i'm pretty much an expert at this now.

1. The show is called "Mayday" (called "Air Disasters" in the USA), and I have seen all 270 episodes, thus I am the real expert.

2. As per the most recent crash in South Korea, the reason why almost everybody died (as I mentioned above) was that wall at the end of the runway, and of course that had nothing to do with Boeing. Even if the airplane got "all fucked up because of Boeing", the loss of life might have been zero if it were not for the incompetence of all that were involved in the construction of that runway.

South Korea airport design was 'unbelievably awful'

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thanks to that show, whenever i board a plane i try to check if the pilot and copilot are getting along. feels like half the crashes are due to poor communication in the cockpit.
 
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Yes....Flying is by far the safest way to travel.

But ummm.....Would you get on a Boeing Airplane?


Another one goes down (Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner), this time with 242 people on board.



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1. The show is called "Mayday" (called "Air Disasters" in the USA), and I have seen all 270 episodes, thus I am the real expert.

I lied, I have only watched about 235 episodes.......but I still consider myself an expert.



Oh and fun fact, as most know this is a Canadian series, it is filmed in an around the Toronto area. One of the guys I went to High School with has appeared (he is an actor) in 3 episodes. Once he played a co-pilot who died, once he was a passenger who died, and once he played a terrorist who died. When you got almost 250 episodes, sometimes ya gotta recycle the actors:D
 

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feels like half the crashes are due to poor communication in the cockpit.

It has gotten way better now with all the new rules "in the cockpit", but yep, lack of communication is right at the top of the list when it comes to planes going down.
 

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I suppose if you refuse to fly on a Boeing, then you really will never make it to Vegas. Aren’t at least half of all fights on a Boeing?
 

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Aren’t at least half of all fights on a Boeing?

Worldwide for Commercial flights it is around 35 percent.

Much higher percentage for non commercial flights......of course when those planes crash only a couple people die, so no worries....and when the doors open mid flight only packages get sucked out, so yeah, all good:kurby
 

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Anyway....back to my point......would you get on a Boeing Airplane? For me.....I think I'd go with a no.

Still no for me, if I am getting on a plane and I see the words "Boeing".........


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