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An engine cover rips off a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737, forcing an emergency landing
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2024
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Remember frequency illusion is a very real thing.
Last week an Airbus had a brake failure on approach in Seattle. Did you hear about that?
https://simpleflying.com/delta-air-lines-airbus-a220-suffers-brakes-failure/
Remember you're primed to see things that match your biases.
Yeah but it's funnier when it's against an American corporate behemoth that already has a poor safety record from even before Airbus became a thing.
Wiki says Airbus was founded in 1970. You think Boeing has had a bad safety record for 55+ years?
Airbus has only really been in competition with Boeing since the 2000s. Boeing's merger with Mcdonell Douglas was in 1997 and that is when corporate culture shifted hard away from quality and to machinists, mechanics, engineers, everyone being told to think "how can I increase stock value today".
Yes, but that's still quite different from what was said. I was only pointing out the ridiculousness of the claim. A lot of Boeing's current problems point back to that merger.