Beep@lemmus.orgBanned to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoMassive US refuelling aircraft crashes in Iraqwww.rnz.co.nzexternal-linkmessage-square53linkfedilinkarrow-up1266arrow-down13
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minus-squareetchinghillside@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up51arrow-down1·1 month ago This was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·1 month agoDid it run out of fuel?
minus-squareNot a newt@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up53arrow-down2·1 month agoThe front fell off.
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down1·1 month agoYeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
minus-square🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoWould you call this tanker safe?
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 month agoI was thinking more about the other ones.
minus-square🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoThe ones the front doesn’t fall off.
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·1 month agoSome of them are built so the front doesn’t fall off
minus-squareThassodar@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoWhat kind of materials are they made of, so the front doesn’t fall off?
minus-squarepartofthevoice@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 month agoI think the point fell off.
minus-squareyucandu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoThe loadmaster forgot to properly strap the fuel in.
minus-squareBeero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down7·1 month 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-up17·1 month 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-down1·1 month agoYeah sure, but their parts are made by today’s Boeing.
minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldBanned from communitylinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 month agoIt had the big sad
minus-squarebrown567@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month 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