Beep@lemmus.org to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoMassive US refuelling aircraft crashes in Iraqwww.rnz.co.nzexternal-linkmessage-square53linkfedilinkarrow-up1268arrow-down13
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minus-squareetchinghillside@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up51arrow-down1·3 days ago This was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·3 days agoDid it run out of fuel?
minus-squareNot a newt@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up53arrow-down2·3 days agoThe front fell off.
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down1·3 days agoYeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
minus-square🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 days agoWould you call this tanker safe?
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 days agoI was thinking more about the other ones.
minus-square🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoThe ones the front doesn’t fall off.
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·3 days agoSome of them are built so the front doesn’t fall off
minus-squareThassodar@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoWhat kind of materials are they made of, so the front doesn’t fall off?
minus-squarepartofthevoice@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·3 days agoI think the point fell off.
minus-squareyucandu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoThe loadmaster forgot to properly strap the fuel in.
minus-squareBeero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down7·3 days 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-up17·3 days 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-down1·3 days agoYeah sure, but their parts are made by today’s Boeing.
minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·3 days agoIt had the big sad
minus-squarebrown567@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days 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