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An emergency slide that fell off of a Delta passenger jet shortly after take-off last week reportedly turned up two days later outside the home of a lawyer whose firm is coincidently suing the Boeing plane manufacturer over safety issues.

Jake Bissell-Linsk, whose firm filed suit against Boeing after one of its planes lost a door plug mid-air back in January, said he discovered the deflated slide washed up outside his oceanfront home near New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday.

“I didn’t want to touch it but I got close enough to get a close look at it,” he told The New York Post of the bizarre discovery along the shore of Belle Harbor, Queens.

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[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 163 points 2 years ago

How have they not grounded every Boeing plane at this point? The company needs to be federalized.

[-] CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 99 points 2 years ago

The plane is 34 years old. It's probably more likely it's Delta's lack of maintenance than a problem with Boeing.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago

While I know you're correct... And there is definitely going to be a media bias in reporting... There seems to have been a remarkably large number of issues with Boeing planes specifically lately.

[-] Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 years ago

Shitting on Boeing is getting clicks. So the news keeps reporting on every bit of anything they can find related to them. The incident rate isn't going up. At the same time there have been a few issues with Airbus planes but that's not getting engagement as much so the news isn't focusing on them.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

Let’s see the Airbus incidents

[-] Dieinahole@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

I mean, they fucking killed a guy. So you know. Probably wouldn't murk a dude if their shit was up to standard

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[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 18 points 2 years ago
[-] Godric@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Maybe bcause shades of nuance exists tho?

[-] Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

Should GM be responsible for a tire on your car going flat after you've owned it for 15 years?

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Because nobody likes lawyers. If an emergency slide falls on a lawyer, so be it.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago
[-] oce@jlai.lu 3 points 2 years ago

Doesn't that make him run with the devil?

[-] JoMomma@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

I found the simple life ain't so simple

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Queue Van Halen - Running With The Devil

[-] _wizard@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

David Komie?

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[-] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

I like some lawyers. Mark Bankston and Bill Ogden are good in my books. Still, never have heroes because we're all fallible humans.

[-] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Why have they not grounded every car? Despite all the safety problems at boeing, they are still way safer than automobiles.

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[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 102 points 2 years ago

This HAS to be the onion right?

[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

At this point, maybe there's enough people suing boeing that the odds of a random plane piece falling on a lawyer involved rises significantly.

[-] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 65 points 2 years ago

you know what I'm starting to believe that god does actually exist and he's just messing with us for his own entertainment at this point

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 37 points 2 years ago

Parthenon gods work well for this shit. Zeus had a bad day and wanted a laugh.

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

Has anyone recently been raped by a goose?

[-] card797@champserver.net 1 points 2 years ago

Is he havin a laugh?

[-] clgoh@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

Or we live in a simulation.

[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 16 points 2 years ago

Is there a meaningful difference between a god and a creator of a virtual universe?

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[-] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

A simulation should approximate reality. What this is, it can't be that.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Good point, but that may be some form of contemporary art

[-] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 6 points 2 years ago

Or both

Maybe neither

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Process 8759264 (clgoh@lemmy.ca) please report to rehabilitation

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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Hang on, Margaret, someone just delivered a new piece of evidence."

I cannot WAIT for the docu-drama series about all this.

[-] Blackout@kbin.run 21 points 2 years ago

Compared to Boeing, I look like I have my shit together.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

I want to see him haul that slide into court to introduce as an exhibit.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 2 years ago
[-] Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Bit of an understatement, that.

[-] Philharmonic3@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago
[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Not sure what you are trying to say there.

[-] Pronell@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They don't like rich lawyers. Few do.

But we do want lawyers skilled enough to be able to hurt major corporations, and then expect them to work cheap.

It's not all that hard to understand when you're downtrodden. But it is a bit counterproductive in my opinion. (That aimed at the original commenter, not at you, though I am sympathetic to both viewpoints.)

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Ah that makes sense.

[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Tbf JFK area Oceanfront isn't nearly as nice as what you're probably picturing. It's not like coastal California, it's cold AF 8mo and rainy the rest. There's only like 2 sand beaches nearby.

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