Man, I really wish they were paying me but no, not a cent. I think it is just time that we stop allowing people to get away with panic as an unchecked response. The stats in the industry are incredibly clear. The article is about how clearly safe the industry is and how we are fixated on a statistically insignificant thing and I totally agree with it. If you deeply believe there is a massive issue with safety in the industry because a door came off then I highly urge you to look at other industries and apply the same level of scrutiny to them. We need the level of safety aviation has in cars, healthcare and industry. something like over 30k people died in cars in the US last year. Studies suggest hundreds of thousands of deaths a year due to medical malpractice and over a hundred thousand due to industrial air pollution alone. But I guess the 'severe' quality control issues at Boeing really do indicate that the aviation industry is in a safety crisis and the 0 deaths last year on major airlines completely back that up. Definitely no irrational panic involved when people go after a door issue for months in the aviation world but don't care about those 30+k road deaths or how massively terrible our healthcare stats are.
The investigation of criminal misconduct at Boeing is not a panic response. It is serious. The company is run by actual criminals who knowingly and wilfully defrauded US regulators and ignore safety/quality concerns raised by inspectors who work at the company.
Boeing's MCAS fraud caused two complete losses within a few months. The carnage only stopped when regulators forcibly grounded all 737 Max globally while Boeing continued to deny any issues with the airplane design and blamed the pilots.
If someone was sitting next to that window they would have been sucked out and killed.
The airplane safety record is relatively good DESPITE the criminals running the show at Boeing who are actively against safety.
You're not a Boeing shill but in one paragraph you use 1) ad hominems about people's panic and "rationality", 2) whataboutisms of the form "but flu killed more people than Covid", 3) straw argumentation about the specific reason for a massive issue with safety in Boeing (not "in the industry", etc).
So, effectively the same level of critical argumentation as a Boeing shill.
Actually, your ideological point is really that "Boeing does some things right, let's learn from them" which is fine but doesn't let Boeing off the hook.
I didn't defend Boeing, I defended the industry and its practices. Boeing needs to fix issues and the process I am defending is making them do that right now. I define panic as irrational fear. Irrational fear here is backed up by stats showing safety compared to industries with massively worse records than aviation that aren't experiencing nearly the reaction this one incident is having. Basically you have just thrown big words around and ignored the arguments presented. Present an argument and I will listen.
The clear salient point both I and, I believe, the article are making is that aviation is safe stop obsessing to the detriment of aviation over every inevitable issue that happens. Bad things will happen when hundreds of millions of people move billions of miles every year. It is unfortunate but the best safety conscious industry in the world is handling it. The fact that 0 died in the US on major airlines for the last ? how many years now? shows the incredible safety record of the industry. Obsessing over a door when you don't even care that several people in your city likely died in car accidents last year is the definition of panic.
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Man, I really wish they were paying me but no, not a cent. I think it is just time that we stop allowing people to get away with panic as an unchecked response. The stats in the industry are incredibly clear. The article is about how clearly safe the industry is and how we are fixated on a statistically insignificant thing and I totally agree with it. If you deeply believe there is a massive issue with safety in the industry because a door came off then I highly urge you to look at other industries and apply the same level of scrutiny to them. We need the level of safety aviation has in cars, healthcare and industry. something like over 30k people died in cars in the US last year. Studies suggest hundreds of thousands of deaths a year due to medical malpractice and over a hundred thousand due to industrial air pollution alone. But I guess the 'severe' quality control issues at Boeing really do indicate that the aviation industry is in a safety crisis and the 0 deaths last year on major airlines completely back that up. Definitely no irrational panic involved when people go after a door issue for months in the aviation world but don't care about those 30+k road deaths or how massively terrible our healthcare stats are.
The investigation of criminal misconduct at Boeing is not a panic response. It is serious. The company is run by actual criminals who knowingly and wilfully defrauded US regulators and ignore safety/quality concerns raised by inspectors who work at the company.
Boeing's MCAS fraud caused two complete losses within a few months. The carnage only stopped when regulators forcibly grounded all 737 Max globally while Boeing continued to deny any issues with the airplane design and blamed the pilots.
If someone was sitting next to that window they would have been sucked out and killed.
The airplane safety record is relatively good DESPITE the criminals running the show at Boeing who are actively against safety.
You're not a Boeing shill but in one paragraph you use 1) ad hominems about people's panic and "rationality", 2) whataboutisms of the form "but flu killed more people than Covid", 3) straw argumentation about the specific reason for a massive issue with safety in Boeing (not "in the industry", etc).
So, effectively the same level of critical argumentation as a Boeing shill.
Actually, your ideological point is really that "Boeing does some things right, let's learn from them" which is fine but doesn't let Boeing off the hook.
I didn't defend Boeing, I defended the industry and its practices. Boeing needs to fix issues and the process I am defending is making them do that right now. I define panic as irrational fear. Irrational fear here is backed up by stats showing safety compared to industries with massively worse records than aviation that aren't experiencing nearly the reaction this one incident is having. Basically you have just thrown big words around and ignored the arguments presented. Present an argument and I will listen. The clear salient point both I and, I believe, the article are making is that aviation is safe stop obsessing to the detriment of aviation over every inevitable issue that happens. Bad things will happen when hundreds of millions of people move billions of miles every year. It is unfortunate but the best safety conscious industry in the world is handling it. The fact that 0 died in the US on major airlines for the last ? how many years now? shows the incredible safety record of the industry. Obsessing over a door when you don't even care that several people in your city likely died in car accidents last year is the definition of panic.