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Oh fuck: that's ME determined never to fly on a Boeing 787!
Air India AI-171 crash: "Aircraft health data that had been transmitted via ACARS by VT-ANB about 15 minutes prior to the crash, indicated faults in the electrical system as well as in all Flight Control Modules (FCM). However, the flight crew never became aware of these faults or transmissions and therefore continued with the takeoff."
Whistleblower report. P100 Primary Power Panel caught fire repeatedly …
@cstross I wonder if we can persuade some state to bribe Trump with a 787? He can have a door seat. For legroom, ofc.
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@cstross I wonder if we can persuade some state to bribe Trump with a 787? He can have a door seat. For legroom, ofc.
@denisbloodnok @cstross 787 is bigger number, must be better
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@cstross All of the the "explosive" parts of the report people are quoting are just flavour text and conjecture. The actual information is just... nothing. Yeah they sometimes have electrical issues. They all do. Yeah they report back thousands more parameters to the company than they display to pilots. They all do. It's for predictive maintainance. Yeah planes routinely take off with various systems mildly broken. It's called the Minimum Equipment List. None of it is even relevant to AI171.
@cstross If you don't want to believe some random internet commenter, consider that this report hasn't been covered or so much as mentioned by any of the major reliable news sources who specialize in aviation. Nothing on The Air Current (who broke the fuel cutoff switch story days before official announcement), Leeham News, Seattle Times. All of those would report on things like this within hours if there was something to them.
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Oh fuck: that's ME determined never to fly on a Boeing 787!
Air India AI-171 crash: "Aircraft health data that had been transmitted via ACARS by VT-ANB about 15 minutes prior to the crash, indicated faults in the electrical system as well as in all Flight Control Modules (FCM). However, the flight crew never became aware of these faults or transmissions and therefore continued with the takeoff."
Whistleblower report. P100 Primary Power Panel caught fire repeatedly …
@cstross
Boeing executives: Do we have any reputation left to piss away?
Aviation authorities: Why?
BE: Oh… nothing… we were just wondering. That's all. -
Oh fuck: that's ME determined never to fly on a Boeing 787!
Air India AI-171 crash: "Aircraft health data that had been transmitted via ACARS by VT-ANB about 15 minutes prior to the crash, indicated faults in the electrical system as well as in all Flight Control Modules (FCM). However, the flight crew never became aware of these faults or transmissions and therefore continued with the takeoff."
Whistleblower report. P100 Primary Power Panel caught fire repeatedly …
@cstross People need a certain amount of reliably-present cognitive armamentarium to keep planes in the air safely, and it's not clear this is still generally available what with repeated SARS infections. (It's also clear in many domains that people are most concerned with being _caught_ not thinking effectively, rather than about broader consequences.)
So Boeing, who was already ripping up any and all do-the-right-thing process, is the canary, not necessarily the uniquely bad example.
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Leading causes of failure on Alone:
1. Cooking and eating at home.
2. Losing fire starter.
3. Projects.
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@afreytes Yes, it's a well-known phenomenon.
It reminds me of corporations switching cars to human drivers just before a crash. Political parties choosing women as presidential candidates when the party seems to prefer the other party winning over doing anything its voters want.
And the old Scottish news where a woman was asked about having had a woman prime minister.
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@mattblaze these two things may not be unconnected.
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TIL The Glass Cliff
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@sdm @GustavinoBevilacqua yeah that was an extremely poor choice on my side, but really it was because I hadn't noticed them at all, just as I had not noticed the traffic light 8-D
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@afreytes oh, this is so well known it has a nickname - the “glass cliff” I think? Women too, ofc
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Totally scans: Kemi Badenoch is leader of the Conservative Party.
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@OhLila welcome to the fediverse, I love your style here, human Sir Pentious is kinda cute!
