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Boeing sales tumble as the company gets no orders for the 737 Max for the second straight month (abcnews.go.com)

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I mean, I too would not be real interested in a vehicle where parts have been known to fall off or small safety issues like oh I don't know PLOWING INTO THE GROUND SHORTLY AFTER TAKEOFF

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Why aren't you buying our planes?

Umm, because planes are supposed to fly and remain intact?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They don't plow into the ground. They enter it in a perfect vertical akin to top Olympic divers, and to claim any less is libel

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

True, plowing implies work done to ready the land, this is more like swan lake playing on an old TV being tossed off an overpass.