Turbine blade failures are something which simply has to be accepted as a statistical likelihood. They're going to happen, because we're building machines that push materials and physics to the limits of endurance.
If you're uncomfortable with it, don't step in a machine that relies on something rotating at 20k rpm.
Those machines that were designed and built by competent white men are now being maintained by companies that care more about filling diversity quotas than merit.
Youtuber Mentour Pilot and a few others are speaking of a culture of subcontracting things at Boeing instead of making things in-house that have lead to these quality issues.
That can still fall within the competency crisis because they have to sub-contract, and the competency crisis can still emerge as a result of the sub-contractors. Wakanda Women Aircraft Repair may offer the cheapest repairs, but you probably shouldn't take them.
Your house, even your car, isn't built by a single manufacturer. Everything is sub-contracted. If your sub-contractors aren't meeting your quality requirements, that's your responsibility to identify.
I fail to see how Wakanda Women Aeronautics doesn't meet with investor-friendly performance metrics in DIE, thus still perpetuating a competency crisis.
What's going on? Why is this happening now?
Uncontained engine failure on an 8 year old aircraft.
A turbine blade detached upwards, punching a hole in the wing.
Happens. Atlas is probably skimping on blade inspections.
Turbine blade failures are something which simply has to be accepted as a statistical likelihood. They're going to happen, because we're building machines that push materials and physics to the limits of endurance.
If you're uncomfortable with it, don't step in a machine that relies on something rotating at 20k rpm.
Those machines that were designed and built by competent white men are now being maintained by companies that care more about filling diversity quotas than merit.
Admiral Cloudberg recently covered the Qantas 32 incident (also an uncontained disc failure, but on an Airbus A380):
“For engineering purposes, disk fragments are assumed to have infinite energy at the moment of release; they will cut through any reasonable material and cannot be contained.”
"Yeah I try to avoid flying."
"Lol wtf is wrong with you planes are perfectly safe."
I don't mean in this specific case. This was a 747, so it surprises me if it was 8 year old.
It just seems to be happening a lot in the past few months.
Registration N859GT, manufactured 2015.
Amazing, and props for having the receipts. I thought Boeing wasn't producing 747's for a while.
Youtuber Mentour Pilot and a few others are speaking of a culture of subcontracting things at Boeing instead of making things in-house that have lead to these quality issues.
Meh.
That can still fall within the competency crisis because they have to sub-contract, and the competency crisis can still emerge as a result of the sub-contractors. Wakanda Women Aircraft Repair may offer the cheapest repairs, but you probably shouldn't take them.
Your house, even your car, isn't built by a single manufacturer. Everything is sub-contracted. If your sub-contractors aren't meeting your quality requirements, that's your responsibility to identify.
Boeing subcontracted because management is obsessed with investor-friendly performance metrics, even at the expense of long term viability.
I fail to see how Wakanda Women Aeronautics doesn't meet with investor-friendly performance metrics in DIE, thus still perpetuating a competency crisis.
Boeing subcontracts because the Boeing union has made it nearly impossible to hire or fire anyone.
That's just about every company now.