Boeing 747 cargo plane drops engine parts in Netherlands

Is it just me, or does this seem to be happening quite a lot lately? What did they just mothball the planes during lockdown and not bother to do maintenance before starting them up again?

Ikea Aircraft always come with some spare screws.

@dave its not that its happening more or less frequent. its moreso that the information is getting to people faster and to a wider audience. its just information availablity bias. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic

It's called "Extracting Profit" at the expence of infrastructure maintenance. All part of late stage Capitalism. Electrical grids, bridges and dams are all going to fail soon. There's no short term profit in maintenance.

Even though these were both being Boeing airplanes, notice that they are both engine problems. The engine is made by a separate manufacturer and there usually is more than one engine option, so airlines get their pick. You can't really balme this on Boeing. Engine failures happen and you could blame it on a lack of maintenance, though I don't know the situation at every airline. Not all failures can be caught anyway. The American 767 that had an engine fire at O'Hare was caused from something nobody knew about at the time.

Their dropping like flies! 😄

Are they trying to subtly discourage air travel or something??? All seems a little convenient

Does this make two today, or one. I've already read a story about a Boeing cargo dropping parts after take off from Maastricht this morning.

Poor maintenance is responsible for the lose of engine parts on any airplane

Idol planes still need to be watched for maintenance problems.

They probably didn't need those parts anyway.

More regulations. Now.

Secretly carpetbombing the dutch i see (just kiding)