Five accidents in one week. What’s happening in the US aviation industry?

There is something wrong with US civil aviation. That's according to five serious accidents that occurred in one week.

• • Tuesday, March 5: A United Boieng 737 flying from Houston to Fort Myers declares an emergency a few minutes after takeoff because one engine emits flames:

BOEING SUFFERS ANOTHER MID-AIR ENGINE FIRE

The United Airlines flight had to make an emergency landing in Texas minutes after take-off when flames began shooting from one of its engines.

This is the second mid-air engine fire to affect Boeing in the US this year, after a… https://t.co/HxaPH1RHeB pic.twitter.com/SKbHofwcZj

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 7, 2024

• • Thursday 7 March: an American Airlines Boeing crashes into a Frontier one in Miami, damaging both planes
  • Also in Houston on Friday a Boeing 737 MAX 8 failed to stay on the runway and stopped on the grass, resulting in emergency evacuation of passengers and suffering damage

Up close photos of @United Flight 2477 (Boeing 737 MAX 8) that left the runway and came to a stop in grass at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) in Houston. @KPRC2 has learned no one was injured.

Janet Bumbarger pic.twitter.com/oH8JZa1lGZ

— Gage Goulding – KPRC 2 (@GageGoulding) March 8, 2024

• In San Francisco a wheel from a Boeing 737 came off and destroyed a car, fortunately without people on board, in a parking lot.
• Then again on Friday 8 March another plane, this time a Boeing 777, had to make an emergency landing at Los Angeles LAX airport due to a hydraulic system failure, one of the most serious problems on an airplane

So in one week the US civil aviation suffered five serious accidents, which only due to luck and the skill of the pilots did not cause any deaths. Each of these could potentially generate a massacre.

What's happening in US civil aviation? We had the sensational case of the Boeing 737 MAX and now this series of accidents. The hypotheses are simple:

• bad luck, but frankly now it would be too much;
• sabotage;
• incredible sloppiness and superficiality in maintenance

While waiting for the FAA reports, which will analyze the individual accidents, the current situation shows an aviation which, due to cuts and optimisations, appears to be in crisis

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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/cinque-incidenti-in-un-settimana-che-sta-succedendo-nellindustria-dellaviazione-usa/ on Sat, 09 Mar 2024 17:31:25 +0000.