The United Airlines aircraft has remained on the ground in Seattle since the incident on August 24.

  • Shadow@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Everything on a plane has a prescribed maintenance and inspection interval. They’re not letting them “shred themselves to death”, a tire blow out at the wrong time (when dealing with another emergency, or from leaving shrapnel on the runway, etc) could kill a plane full of people.