Re:Passenger notices missing bolts on plane wing, flight can...
by kkielhofner on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @12:08PM
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> SWA1380 was in 2018 and resulted in a passenger fatality:
I stand corrected: 1 single fatality from over five years ago across billions of people-flights. Doesn't change the point in the slightest and as I said elsewhere, these incidents are so rare people can recall and reference them specifically as you just did. Other than a major celebrity dying that doesn't happen with any other single death incident.
> The bird strike testing uses thawed birds.
Thanks, again corrected (not trying to be snarky, I like knowing when I'm wrong). Point still stands in replying to someone talking about paint chips.
SWA1380 was in 2018 and resulted in a passenger fatality:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1380
> where they literally shoot frozen turkeys from cannons into engines to test for bird strike resilience
The bird strike testing uses thawed birds. There's a joke where the punchline is they were using frozen birds.