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Re:Alaska Airlines flight 1282 NTSB preliminary report [pdf] by luxuryballs on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @09:30PM (#39283754)
Also I’m kinda surprised an airline wouldn’t inspect a newly acquired plane before putting customers in it.
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Re:Alaska Airlines flight 1282 NTSB preliminary report [pdf] by chx on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @04:55AM (#39286561)
The checklist for that is very different from what the manufacturer would do. It would take a lot of time and therefore be very costly to verify every single bolt, rivet and weld was done correctly.
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Re:Alaska Airlines flight 1282 NTSB preliminary report [pdf] by __loam on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @05:22AM (#39286766)
To put this in perspective, every jet airlines has millions of these joins on them.
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