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A Boeing 737 plane carrying 85 people skidded off the runway at the airport in Dakar, Senegal’s capital, injuring 10 people, a statement from the country’s transport minister said in a statement on Thursday.

El Malick Ndiaye, the transport minister, said the Air Sénégal flight operated by TransAir was headed to Bamako late on Wednesday carrying 79 passengers, two pilots and four cabin crew.

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[-] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Runway excursions are the most common kind of airplane accident. This is the kind of incident that is only international news now because boeing is under scrutiny. Had this happened a few years ago this incident would be easily ignorable, only be reported locally or in aviation related news publications.

The aircraft involved was a 737-300, a model two generations before the max, on a production run that started in 1981, 14 years before the merger with mcdonald douglas. This incident is unlikely to be related to the current issues at boeing.

[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Crazy how all 10 people were heading to a Boeing whistleblower tea party.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

I don't think that's true.

[-] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

It is. I was the tea

[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Just waiting for the inevitable, iT iS bOeInGs FaUlT.

Just before anyone tries to say this it was a 737-300. Two generations older than the max.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

I don't mind them having permanent scrutiny to get them and keep them on a better path. They needed government supervision but neither party could handle that so now they can be supervised by the media, tabloids, and the great unwashed public

[-] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Boeing also supplies parts, expertise, and maintenance schedules. Even though the plane was build a long time ago, it could still certainly be their fault.

[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Are they also responsible for flying the plane, performing the maintenance, or confirming the maintenance has been done? No

And is much more likely that this was the fault of the pilots. It appears to be a departing aircraft. It is likely that the pilots went for an aborted takeoff after V1 and they failed to get the aircraft stopped in time.

I'm not trying to defend Boeing but not everything is their fault.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I'm doing my part!

[-] wildtamaskan@yiffit.net 6 points 1 month ago

The replies in your comment suggest a lot of folks just wanna hate. I get despising a big corp for their cost-cutting measures risking lives, but I don't get the attacks from when their planes were built better in the past.

We don't know what happened with this plane, and knowing the media, it'll get ignored if it turns out to be a maintenance problem. But lack of evidence be damned, let's just go by our feelings and blame the big bad corporation.

[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Well it is way easier to react then to actually consider the realistic causes of this.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Well, they did kill John Barnett

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