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.
Boeing ramped down production of 747s for decades. It's actually extremely difficult contract-wise to shut down the entire supply line for one of these planes. Plus, even though they aren't used in commercial air traffic much any more, they were still profitable because every few years they were able to sell a new Air Force One marked up 1000% to the US taxpayers.
I don’t know the entire history of 747 production, but I do know they officially delivered the final 747 off the production line January 31st of 2023. It got some coverage in the aviation press at the time.
The article I have says that, as of 2020, they were only producing half a plane a month. And the last one went to Atlas Air.
Only -8s and -8Fs. Freighter versions of the 747 will be flying for 50 years yet, fulfilling the original design criteria of being easily convertible to freighters, for when the supersonic passenger planes became an everyday thing.
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."
Did you miss "Atlas is probably skimping on blade inspections"? He's not saying human failure played no role.
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.
Boeing ramped down production of 747s for decades. It's actually extremely difficult contract-wise to shut down the entire supply line for one of these planes. Plus, even though they aren't used in commercial air traffic much any more, they were still profitable because every few years they were able to sell a new Air Force One marked up 1000% to the US taxpayers.
I don’t know the entire history of 747 production, but I do know they officially delivered the final 747 off the production line January 31st of 2023. It got some coverage in the aviation press at the time.
The article I have says that, as of 2020, they were only producing half a plane a month. And the last one went to Atlas Air.
Only -8s and -8Fs. Freighter versions of the 747 will be flying for 50 years yet, fulfilling the original design criteria of being easily convertible to freighters, for when the supersonic passenger planes became an everyday thing.