'We all felt a kind of a bump, jolt': Engine cover rips open as Southwest flight takes off from DIA
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An engine cover on a Boeing 737 operated by Southwest Airlines ripped open just after taking off from Denver International Airport Sunday.

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DENVER — An engine cover on a Boeing 737 operated by Southwest Airlines ripped open just after taking off from Denver International Airport Sunday morning.

The Houston-bound Southwest flight took off from DIA around 7:45 a.m., and returned to the airport 30 minutes later, landing safely. No injuries were reported.

    • @PoliticalAgitator
      1•9 months ago

      … So they got on a plane knowing they were definitely going to die? They didn’t get on a plane with the very same remote chance of dying in a plane crash as every one else has, only to then die in a plane crash?

      I guess they should have checked the Lemmy statistics before they boarded, where “it’s unlikely to happen to me” can be extrapolated to “it will never happen to anyone”.

      Fuck, why does Boeing even bother pretending to do all that maintenance? Apparently planes don’t burst into flames because they’re protected by magical statistics. Just throw a screwdriver in the engine, it doesn’t make any difference.