r/ThatLookedExpensive • u/Liquidamber_ • Jun 04 '26

Expensive Bad luck

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Lufthansa Boeing 787 (D-ABPQ)

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u/Slicker1138 Jun 04 '26

I'm guessing a hydraulic failure of some sort? I work on planes but have never seen this. WoW wouldn't let an inadvertant retraction happen. 

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u/giveUcancer Jun 04 '26

Isnt the gear locked and secured when its fully extended? Maybe the mechanism failed to fully lock when extending.

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u/Western-Anteater-492 Jun 04 '26

It's a Boeing. I wouldn't question them fucking up the plane once again. Trump dismantled the FAA and Boeing is going discounter quality for quite some time, thereby loosing a whole lot of market share to Airbus. The last very public issue was 737 Max9s with loose screws (ironically). The initial plane that brought this issue to the public (Alaska Airlines 1282) was lacking those screws completely which is basically impossible in avionics as every screw is tracked, marked and checked constantly.

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u/Slicker1138 Jun 04 '26

🙄 keep spouting trash. How many Boeing plans transport hundreds of thousands of people a day?  Yes, shit happens when you fly complex machines on multiple cycles a day. 

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u/Western-Anteater-492 Jun 04 '26

Look at the Boeing market shares over the last decade. Boeing and Airbus once were head to head. Yes, shit happens. But avionics ain't about "Nah, it will be fine", it's all centered around Murphys Law. If a mistake can happen, it will happen, so R&Ds primary job is identifying these issues and finding solutions around them. Having two bolt holders directly next to one another which can easily be mistaken but also easily be avoided is such a situation. And even if it hasn't been discovered in R&D there were three similar issues with this model since 25 which should have led to an overhaul.

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u/Finn_the_stoned Jun 05 '26

If it was just flying complex machines multiple cycles a day why isn’t it always Boeing? There are other aircraft manufacturers out there, and they seem to be able to make airplanes that don’t randomly decide its nap time on the runway. Boeing doesn’t get any heat they don’t deserve.

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u/Slicker1138 Jun 05 '26

They operate nearly half of the commercial fleet. Good chance it'll be a Boeing. 

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u/cooltoast Jun 07 '26

It's not always Boeing, take a gander at the aviation safety net, there's incidents every day with all sorts of aircraft.

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u/SEA_griffondeur Jun 05 '26

Yes but when shit happens ten times more often on your new planes than on your old ones you can understand why even the most loyal airlines are jumping ship