Beep@lemmus.org to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoMassive US refuelling aircraft crashes in Iraqwww.rnz.co.nzexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1267arrow-down13
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minus-squareetchinghillside@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up51arrow-down1·2 months ago This was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·2 months agoDid it run out of fuel?
minus-squareNot a newt@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up53arrow-down2·2 months agoThe front fell off.
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down1·2 months agoYeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
minus-square🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoWould you call this tanker safe?
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 months agoI was thinking more about the other ones.
minus-square🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoThe ones the front doesn’t fall off.
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·2 months agoSome of them are built so the front doesn’t fall off
minus-squareThassodar@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoWhat kind of materials are they made of, so the front doesn’t fall off?
minus-squarepartofthevoice@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoI think the point fell off.
minus-squareyucandu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoThe loadmaster forgot to properly strap the fuel in.
minus-squareBeero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down7·2 months agoIt’s fucking Boeing. Just another case of MBAs running an engineering firm, someone has to die for those quarterly bonuses.
minus-squaretoddestan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·2 months agoIt’s a KC-135. A plane designed in the 1950’s, and the plane in the incident was probably built in the early 1960’s. Way before any of Boeing’s current problems.
minus-squareBeero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoYeah sure, but their parts are made by today’s Boeing.
minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoIt had the big sad
minus-squarebrown567@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoIt apparently was an incident between two kc-135, so maybe they just got a little too rowdy XD
Did it run out of fuel?
The front fell off.
Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
Would you call this tanker safe?
I was thinking more about the other ones.
The ones the front doesn’t fall off.
Some of them are built so the front doesn’t fall off
What kind of materials are they made of, so the front doesn’t fall off?
I think the point fell off.
The loadmaster forgot to properly strap the fuel in.
It’s fucking Boeing. Just another case of MBAs running an engineering firm, someone has to die for those quarterly bonuses.
It’s a KC-135. A plane designed in the 1950’s, and the plane in the incident was probably built in the early 1960’s. Way before any of Boeing’s current problems.
Yeah sure, but their parts are made by today’s Boeing.
So it’s a skill issue?
Doubt
It had the big sad
It apparently was an incident between two kc-135, so maybe they just got a little too rowdy XD