apparently it was a maintenance issue this time and not a manufacturing issue.
Yeah, this is just sensationalist click bandwagoning. The fact that it was a Boeing plane had nothing to do with the issue of improper maintenence by the ground crews.
on the other hand, when the same company responsible for breaking guitars has three major maintenance issues in one week …
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The tire, one of six on the left side main landing gear assembly, dropped into a staff parking lot, where it hit a car, broke the rear window, then tore through a fence and rolled to a halt.
An airport spokesperson said there were no injuries and that the Japan-bound Boeing 777, which was carrying 235 passengers and 14 crew members, landed safely in Los Angeles afterward.
The tire incident itself came less than a week after passengers on a United Airlines flight from Houston, Texas, to Fort Myers, Florida, saw orange flames bursting from one of the plane’s engines 20 minutes after takeoff.
On Thursday, the National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report into a 6 February incident in which pilots of a Boeing 737 Max 8 said the controls jammed as they tried to land.
Alan Price, a former chief pilot for Delta Air Lines, told the Associated Press that a loose tire is typically related to maintenance, not the manufacturer’s fault.
John Cox, a retired pilot and aviation safety professor at the University of Southern California, expressed similar sentiments, saying to the AP: “I don’t see any impact for Boeing as it was a United maintenance team that changed the tire.”
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