'We all felt a kind of a bump, jolt': Engine cover rips open as Southwest flight takes off from DIA
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An engine cover on a Boeing 737 operated by Southwest Airlines ripped open just after taking off from Denver International Airport Sunday.

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  • article title update, bump not bomb jolt’
  • added comma

DENVER — An engine cover on a Boeing 737 operated by Southwest Airlines ripped open just after taking off from Denver International Airport Sunday morning.

The Houston-bound Southwest flight took off from DIA around 7:45 a.m., and returned to the airport 30 minutes later, landing safely. No injuries were reported.

  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    7 months ago

    I mean, all recent coverage seems to have been about Boeing planes…

    …but stuff like this is likely more due to shoddy maintenance than production faults, right?

    It’s just that everyone is hyper-vigilant currently for anything that goes wrong on a Boeing flight currently.

    • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      7 months ago

      but stuff like this is likely more due to shoddy maintenance than production faults, right?

      yes exactly. you nailed it of course, it’s the same thing like when you buy a car and then you see it everywhere. Human brain likes to connect patterns when possible so anything Boeing is like, ‘there they go again!’ when in reality it’s poor maintenance. Part of why Alaska Airlines has looked real bad with all this stuff, bad maintenance like you said.