"Passenger captures shocking video of ‘wing coming apart’ on United flight making emergency landing"

 

After reading this article I am thinking of the safety standards we experience today.

Can this type of incident occur suddenly? Or is it totally due to crappy engineering and quality control?

Always, we tend to blame the developing or the 3rd world countries for this type of thing - but this, WHAT?

 

 

This is already discussed in this thread.

 

 

I wonder if a lot of the issues such as this is down to companies being run by accountants- bottom line is money…

Standards come second to money… and we (the consumer) wants that too.. cheaper everything… worry about service later. 
 

In a lot of technical positions I see a lot of folk from developing nations coming in and heavily undercutting (on price) those from developed nations…

Some are excellent, many are not…

 

Accountants don’t notice the ‘hidden value’ of those better at their jobs, they only value the minimum ‘cost’ they can legally get away with.

 

The consequences are periodically visible when these issues surface, any many of them are failures that are costly or safety risks - but it is not the accountants who are ever held responsible. 

 

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

I wonder if a lot of the issues such as this is down to companies being run by accountants- bottom line is money…

Standards come second to money… and we (the consumer) wants that too.. cheaper everything… worry about service later. 
 

In a lot of technical positions I see a lot of folk from developing nations coming in and heavily undercutting (on price) those from developed nations…

Some are excellent, many are not…

 

Accountants don’t notice the ‘hidden value’ of those better at their jobs, they only value the minimum ‘cost’ they can legally get away with.

 

The consequences are periodically visible when these issues surface, any many of them are failures that are costly or safety risks - but it is not the accountants who are ever held responsible. 

 

 

 

 

 

Some are excellent, many are not…

 

Accountants don’t notice the ‘hidden value’ 

 

Where are they from? Developed or developing countries? 

Cheap Charlie's all over,  blaming the other!

 

I guess one reason might be that things get all the time more complex.

I watch from time to time the wonderful YouTube channel M539 Restorations. It's about guy who works on BMW cars. He disassembles them to completely and he restores them. And he explains what he is doing.

A long time ago I worked myself on cars and I have an idea about them. But when I see the videos of the more modern cars, I am amazed about all the extra things and extra sensors and extra this and that. And then there is obviously all the complicated electronics, software, etc.

It's very complex and complicated. And the more complex and complicated things are, the more likely something can go wrong.

 

Above is about cars. I imagine with airplanes it is even worse. How much time do engineers still have to look at all the details and test them? Probably a lot less than they would like to have...

 

Here is another example of poor safety standards, this time in building construction/maintenance.

 

Poor or little regulations, that allows external cladding that aids rapid uncontrolled fire spread, that seems to be an echo of the Grenfell fire, 7 years ago.

 

These problems have been known since the 1990s, but still keep occurring..

 

https://www.euronews.com/2024/02/23/as-many-as-15-people-still-missing-after-valencia-apartment-building-fire

In a lot of technical positions I see a lot of folk from developing nations coming in and heavily undercutting (on price) those from developed nations…

 

TBH the undercutting is not done by the folk from developing nations. It is the recruiters themselves who offer paltry salaries & benefits to them. Everywhere, there are the competent and the incompetent people who apply for jobs - the latter are cheap & flexible at negotiations, so has better chances.

 

Edit

Today, we have a plethora of people with many qualifications, but lack intelligence...

I think that whatever laws you make about safety, large corporations with resources will find a way around the regulations. They will use cheaper materials to save costs and increase profits and to hell with safety because it might not happen, as far as a large outfit like Boeing are concerned, and even if there are many deaths no one will go to jail. In the future we will find tougher laws and more ways around the laws. 

You can see the attitude to inflation by multinationals....shrinkflation and crapflation to increase profits, so you pay much more for less, lower quality goods.