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In reply to the discussion: Boeing 757 Makes Emergency Landing After Wing Falls Apart Mid Flight [View all]rickford66
(5,568 posts)33. 727 is still the safest commercial aircraft ever.
The only crashes or dangerous situations were weather related or pilot error. You lose hydraulics .... you fly it manually. Lose two engines ... it flies in a straight line. One had an engine fall off and the crew only thought it was shut down. You got a flight engineer monitoring and controlling all the systems, not some software that has bugs. At one time there was an avionics update for these, but sadly I guess the airframes are too old and more fuel efficient engines aren't available. I worked on a number of 72 simulators and loved receiving data from the crew, sometimes on cocktail napkins. We called the analog instruments steam gauges as opposed to the glass in the 75's 76's etc.
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Any airframe failure that leaves the airframe visibly damaged is airworthiness threatening.
Girard442
Feb 2024
#16
Exactly. We don't know if it was related to a sequence of other problems that will get worse.
Irish_Dem
Feb 2024
#21
I'd pretty much made up my mind not to fly anywhere again, and this confirms my qualms.
planetc
Feb 2024
#6
You're in much more danger driving to the airport than you are in any Boeing
EX500rider
Feb 2024
#47
The 757 is my favority airliner. Flew on it many many times from east to west coast. Love the thrust during takeoff!
beaglelover
Feb 2024
#22
It looks like something punctured the slat which made the holes we see and the slat slowly desintigrated
ArkansasDemocrat1
Feb 2024
#46