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Engineer Sam Salehpour calls on planemaker ahead of testimony before Senate homeland security committee

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[-] manucode@infosec.pub 59 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If I were him, I would keep away from parking garages

[-] Dreizehn@kbin.social 30 points 6 months ago

After watching the documentary about Boeing's South Carolina production site, no thanks. I do not want to fall from the sky like a bucket of juice. Airbus is more appealing to me.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 23 points 6 months ago

Before all of the stuff I used to not pay any attention what planes were part of my route. Now it’s definitely a factor I consider.

[-] holycrap@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago

I think airbus is going to own the market after this

[-] Fermion@mander.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

Do we have any sort of reassurance that airbus hasn't also suffered an erosion of safety culture in favor of cost cutting and faster production?

[-] pacmondo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

Nope! But the other option is proven to be so, what choice do you really have if you want to fly?

[-] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago

Being 25% government owned?

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Not American.

[-] Wooki@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

No they cant manufacture fast enough and dont have the capacity, top it off covid lay waste to the industry

[-] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago

Airbus will share the market with Comac. Boeing will slowly sink into irrelevance.

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago

Makes you wonder how many planes are in the sky with a door that has almost fallen off, but not quite yet.

[-] espentan@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

If it's Boeing I'm not going.

[-] Templa@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

I'm surprised Embraer isn't more popular.

[-] Murvel@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago

No it's not. There was a deal in 2020 about a joint venture, but it failed. Brazilian government also has golden shares that give them veto power in certain circumstances.

[-] Murvel@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

True enough

[-] Templa@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

Almost, but the deal failed thankfully!

[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago

It's considered the 3rd biggest player in commercial plane market, but they are tiny in comparison. They have a lot of backend infrastructure built to keep operating, but they don't have the capital to swing for new, risky designs. One miss and they are at bankruptcy level.

They also missed the mark with their latest Embraer 175-E2 design by not being able to keep the weight under the US scope clause, so they lost a huge market segment.

[-] Templa@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

Even before all this I always used to prefer traveling through Embraer planes. I have an irrational fear of flying after an awful turbulence I've experienced.

There's this air company in Brazil called Azul and their fleet is pretty much a mix of Embraer and Airbus.

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

Honest question: Do Boeings have stricter inspection in the EU, or is it the same everywhere in the world?

[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 15 points 6 months ago

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has the authority to act independently of FAA, but they used to mostly follow FAA since they have direct access and oversight of Boeing, them being a US company. But that started to change in 2019 with 373 MAX groundings. It exposed how FAA were incompetent and believed Boeing lies about MCAS. EASA didn't follow FAA directive to unground them and required some additional procedural changes, combined with relevant training modifications, before ungrounding.

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Thank you very much for the concise answer.

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