The US is investigating if Boeing ensured a part that blew off a jet was made to design standards::The Federal Aviation Administration said that the investigation is focusing on plugs on Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners.

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I understand your general point of cutting costs etc leading to failures but in this case your comment shows you aren’t aware of Soviet passenger aviation history

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Nah, the relevant question is, “Did Boeing force the Soviets to make shitty planes?” If not, you can’t claim capitalism is the source of crappy planes.

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They had plenty worse of their own. Look up the TU-104 for example

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No one died right? Right? I’m scared looking at the seats position, looks like someone got sucked out

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The place next to the door was unoccupied, the incident (fortunately) also happened while the fasten seatbelts lights were still on.

A couple of mobile phones got sucked out but no human.

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Good to note that the mobile phones survived as well

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Nope there was a kid sitting there who lost his shirt or something. True luck or what?

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He sat in the middle seat and still lost his shirt.

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Alaska airlines prices are so high they’ll take the shirt right off your back.

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part that blew off a jet

I blew off a Jet once. Well… he was from New York and owned a basketball, so probably a Jet.

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The one the door fell off of? That’s not very typical; I’d like to make that point. There are a lot of these planes going around the world all the time and very seldom does anything like this ever happen. I just don’t want people thinking these planes aren’t safe.

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Well, if this wasn’t safe, why did it have 80+ passengers on it?

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Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point

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Well, some of them are built so that the plug door doesn’t fall off at all.

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I would also like to note that the safety card blew out too. It’s a miracle they survived without the safety card

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