Boeing 787 Dreamliner Loses Door at Remote Pacific Airport, Puzzling Engineers

https://aeroxplorer.com/articles/boeing-787-dreamliner-loses-door-at-remote-pacific-airport-puzzling-engineers

by lostlogin • 2 months ago

26 25 2 months ago

dylan6042• 2 months ago

"Still, any event in which a door separates from a commercial aircraft tends to attract attention from regulators, manufacturers, and airline safety teams."

As well as stockholders I'd imagine.

nandomrumber4• 2 months ago

Boeing shares up 10% overnight

firtoz• 2 months ago

Reminds me of this video: https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM - "Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off"

chpatrick• 2 months ago

Yeah, that's not very typical, I'd like to make that point.

pseudohadamard• 2 months ago

[...] Puzzling Engineers

... but not puzzling anyone who's been watching the direction Boeing has been going.

djmips• 2 months ago

Vandalism of some type has to be a possibility right?

dangus• 2 months ago

Is that the word we are using for Boeing Quality Assurance now?

jimbob45• 2 months ago

Can’t recommend the book Airframe by Michael Crichton to help contextualize the typical kneejerk reactions to these kinds of things versus the usual culprits enough.

Edit: thanks for pointing out the typo. Good book still.

GolfPopper• 2 months ago

I'll bite. Why not?

jey• 2 months ago

I thought other reporting claimed that a ground handling truck crashed into the door, thereby detaching it?

ralph84• 2 months ago

Put some caution tape over the door and have the pilots fly it out empty at 6,000 feet so it doesn't have to be pressurized.

nandomrumber4• 2 months ago

Haphazardly chuck a road cone in the isle near the door.

mikestorrent• 2 months ago

I have never heard "church" being used as a verb before

cyanydeez• 2 months ago

was it recently adjusted by an LLM

I_dream_of_Geni• 2 months ago

"The recent incident of this nature occurred on May 29, 2026, when a LATAM Airlines Boeing 787-8 (registration CC-BBD) had its L2 passenger door torn off by an air-stairs vehicle on Easter Island "

There. Fixed it for you.

random__duck• 2 months ago

Clearly doors and boeing aircraft don't get along.

866-RON-0-FEZ2• 2 months ago

As few have already pointed out, an AI hallucination...

Quick, to the top of HN!

Toyota engineers equally puzzled their doors fly off when you reverse through a toll booth with them open.

dang2• 2 months ago

Can you please stop posting like this? It is tedious:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419549

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48418855

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48418524