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For anyone else wondering, the plane was a

> Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner

(Boeing, but not the 737 Max that has been in the headlines the past few years)

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/3/11/50-people-injur...

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As if the 787 was any better. Just see the history of issues and reports about manufacturing.

Dreamliners have been flying for 13+ years now with zero hull loss accidents or fatalities. There were some teething issues with fuel leaks and batteries, but AFAICT those have long since been ironed out.

And an issue where if not regularly rebooted, preferably with staggered (by days) reboots, they lose all power, including instrumentation and controls, after 248 days of uptime.

Additionally an Airworthiness Directive from 2020 requires, at least in europe, to reboot more often than 51 days due to stale data in common core system, with various network packets being dropped and system showing incorrect data to pilots.

The Airbus A350 has almost the exact same issue, but requiring a reboot after only 148 _hours_ or the avionics shut off.

Not exact same issue, but one with similar symptoms to the "reboot every 51 days" one for 787.

Reading deeper, I'm more worried about how there's no patch for the Boeing issue still, at least I can't find one in FAA AD database, I assumed there would be one already... (the affected A350 had a software patch available at the time AD for "reboot before 148 hours" was issued)

Nice cherry-picking. You can do the same for Airbus. Feel free to search https://drs.faa.gov/search

Not cherry picking, simply pointing out that 787 isn't as flawless as painted by some.

A350 has avionics bug requiring regular reboots too. Arguably even more embarassing, because while 787 was Boeing's first AFDX plane, Airbus pretty much invented AFDX for A380

Is 'hull loss' the equivalent of 'rapid unscheduled disassembly' for space travel?

It means any accident that results in the loss of the plane, like a car being totaled.

The 787 is one of the best airliners ever made. It's been flying more than a decade without a single hull loss. In the first decade the 747 had several non-terrorism related hull losses. The 737 MAX is newer and already has two hull losses.

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