#Boeing malfunctioning

[creativemedianews]

SpaceX Launches Rescue Mission for Two Stranded Astronauts on ISS

SpaceX Launches Rescue Mission for Two Stranded Astronauts on ISS #astronautsstrandedISS #BarryWilmore

[bellaciao-ciao-ciao]

Anyone knows what this asshole is trying to do? He’s straight up trying to destroy the US from the inside out and trying to get access into the US treasury’s payment system. Pressuring the previous FAA director to resign after the FAA found that spacex was not prioritising safety enough, then now with all the guardrails removed or fired suddenly a Blackhawk slams into a plane and kills everyone on board? And now he’s saying he wants to work with Boeing to produce the new air force one, what can go wrong? Two companies famous for their products malfunctioning in fatal ways. And he’s getting his smelly hands into every government trying to influence them or their alt right population like the AFD. Anyone someone should look into him but they won’t, he’ll personally make sure of that.

[its-not-a-pen]

bro did boeing design this spaceship why is EVERYTHING broken??? fanart OFFICIAL COVER ART for time to orbit: unknown by @derinthescarletpescatarian

god the attention to detail and creativity put into the futuristic technology is astounding. my favourite detail is how the ship creates artificial gravity through centrifugal force. (get inside the Giant Washing Machine future space colonists! it's perfectly safe and very functional!) design notes:

I'm only on chapter 6 rn but this is what aspen looks like in my head.

the vibe im going for is borderline cosmic horror. aspen greaves' face opens up to reveal Spaceship Guts inside. i decided to combine aspen with the s.s. courageous to make them one organism (Courageous-Aspen) to symbolise how the colonists' survival are totally dependant on their malfunctioning ship. it's also a cool way to show the weight of loneliness and responsibility weighing on aspen e.g. the ship is constantly on their mind, even as they're barely holding themself together.

mini!aspen is on a spacewalk looking at big!aspen. something something, existential angst about realising how vulnerable and insignificant you are in the vast uncaring void of space.

Wips:

not a lot of revisions between draft and lineart. my only big change was making the aspen's eyelines match up, so they are looking at themselves. oh fun fact! the plain black background was actually a merging error, i originally had stars but the layers got deleted and i ended up keeping it like that because it looks SO cool and bleak.

[eugenedebs1920]

God damn Trump is genius when it comes to public relations. Does anyone remember earlier, this past fall when Boeing had a technical malfunction and couldn’t get the astronauts? Biden was still in office and asked spacex if they could assist. They agreed and the astronauts decided to stay up and do some more work.

In December spacex, NASA, and the Biden administration come together and work out that sometime in early spring, between February and March, spacex would retrieve them.

This was already set! Long before Trump took office! This was already scheduled!!!

Now Trump is taking credit for it?!! And NPR and nearly all the news outlets seemed to have forgotten?

I mean… I know I may consume too much current events but I clearly remember both these occurrences.

This administration is going to test the limits of what’s true and real, versus what’s completely made up and fictional…

[clonerightsagenda]

The Erebus and the Terror were the two ships in John Franklin's doomed Arctic expedition. The vessels got stuck in ice and the remaining crew abandoned ship only to die in the Arctic. Erebus is the Greek myth personification of darkness and is also used to refer to the Underworld. Terror is self-explanatory. (In contrast, Shackleton's expedition aboard the Endurance also got icebound, but they escaped with no loss of life. Name your ships wisely.)

The Boeing Starliner capsule Calypso malfunctioned while taking astronauts up to the ISS. Because of these issues, the capsule returned to Earth without them, leaving the astronauts stranded for months now. Their return date keeps getting pushed back. In Greek myth, Calypso is a nymph who keeps Odysseus imprisoned on her island for seven years despite his desire to return home to his family.

[filmnoirsbian]

hi, I hope this isn't an upsetting question to receive especially because I can imagine outside of work a lot of people rudely springing it on you, but are you still feeling safe as a flight attendant with all the boeing stuff going on? i only ask because pursuing becoming a flight attendant seems really appealing to me, but i'm really nervous about how safe it is to frequently be on planes between that and covid. thank you, and i hope you have a great day! happy to see you on tumblr!

The boeing thing has been going on for years now. I was a flight attendant during both the 747 max situation and during covid, and while those were extremely stressful times in aviation, they didn't scare me as much as the plane crash that happened at my base just this year. This can be a stressful job in general and if you're worried you might be afraid of potential plane mishaps specifically then I wouldn't recommend it because should something like that occur, you (and the rest of your crew) are going to be the first responders for the emergency. All of that said, I don't really want to fear monger you out of your dream, I just think you should really clarify for yourself how much of a deal breaker the possibility is, because the possibility of a plane malfunction is never zero.

[jjmcquade-misc]

NASA'S Space-X Return

On March 18, 2025, SpaceX successfully completed a mission to return two NASA astronauts, Sunita "Suni" Williams and Butch Wilmore, to Earth after they had been stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) for over nine months. The astronauts splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico (aka Gulf Of America) off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, at 5:57 p.m. Eastern Time aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule named Freedom, marking the end of an extended mission that began in June 2024.

Originally, Williams and Wilmore launched to the ISS on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft for what was intended to be an eight-day test flight. However, due to technical issues with Starliner—including thruster malfunctions and helium leaks—NASA deemed it too risky for their return, and the capsule returned to Earth uncrewed in September 2024. This left the astronauts on the ISS far longer than planned, requiring SpaceX to step in.

The rescue operation involved two key SpaceX missions. First, the Crew-9 mission, launched in September 2024, brought NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov to the ISS with two empty seats reserved on their Dragon capsule for Williams and Wilmore. Then, on March 14, 2025, SpaceX launched the Crew-10 mission from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying four astronauts—NASA's Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA's Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos' Kirill Peskov—to replace the Crew-9 team. Crew-10 docked with the ISS on March 15, allowing a handover period before Crew-9, including Williams and Wilmore, departed.

The Crew-9 Dragon undocked from the ISS on March 17 at 1:05 a.m. ET and, after a 17-hour journey, splashed down successfully. Recovery teams retrieved the crew, who were reported to be in good spirits despite the physical toll of 286 days in space. During their extended stay, Williams and Wilmore contributed to over 900 hours of scientific research and maintenance tasks, with Williams breaking the record for the most spacewalking time by a woman at 62 hours and 6 minutes.

This mission highlighted SpaceX's reliability as NASA's partner in the Commercial Crew Program, contrasting with Boeing's struggles with Starliner. It also drew attention due to claims from Elon Musk and President Donald Trump that the Biden administration had delayed the astronauts' return for political reasons—assertions NASA denied, emphasizing the mission followed a pre-planned crew rotation schedule set in August 2024. Regardless, SpaceX's execution of the mission was a technical success, reinforcing its critical role in U.S. spaceflight operations.

[sadclowncentral]

do you think any of the ongoing troubles faced by the crew of the iss are going to have implications on international space law in the near-mid term?

what a great question! for those unaware, two astronauts are currently stranded on the ISS until at least early july due to technical failures in Boeing's return capsule.

while the astronauts are safe and sound and in no need of rescuing at the moment, the problem of astronauts in distress has actually been exhaustively been addressed by international space law and was even one of the first things lawmakers worried about. for example, the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST) states that:

States Parties to the Treaty shall regard astronauts as envoys of mankind in outer space and shall render to them all possible assistance in the event of accident, distress, or emergency landing on the territory of another State Party or on the high seas. [...] In carrying on activities in outer space and on celestial bodies, the astronauts of one State Party shall render all possible assistance to the astronauts of other States Parties. [...] (Article V OST)

keep in mind, this law was written in the sixties. the drafting of this provision was less about getting stuck on space stations and much more about the fear was much more that us or ussr astronauts would accidentally land on the wrong side of the iron curtain and be detained. but still the issue of astronauts in distress was taken incredibly seriously - so much so that the second space treaty, the aptly named 1969 Astronaut Rescue and Return Agreement (ARRA), focuses entirely on the issue, reiterating that:

If information is recieved or it is discovered that the personnel of a spacecraft have alighted* on the high seas or in my other place not under the jurisdiction of any State [i.e. outer space], those Contracting Parties which are in a position to do so shall, if necessary, extend assistance in search and rescue operations for such personnel to assure their speedy rescue. [...] (Art 3 ARRA)

what does that mean in practice? not much right now, as the astronauts are not in distress, they are simply delayed. you wouldn't call search and rescue on yourself when the train has a malfunction that makes it late either. but should a case of distress occur, and it is impossible to intervene on a national level by sending a falcon rocket up, it could be argued that the only other nation that has ratified the treaties and can currently easily and regularly access the international space station** - russia - could be obligated to provide assistance for their rescue. even though, while legally sound, i wouldn't want to touch that diplomatic baseball bat to a bee's nest if you held a gun to my head.

tldr; there are no implications for international space law as of yet*** as the situation is not severe, and if it became so, our beloved envoys of mankind would not be on their own. hopefully.

* we can fight about the word alighted an it's implications in this scenario but I don't have my cologne commentary on hand and I don't go into battle unarmed.

** China also has independent access to outer space and its own space station so it could in theory provide assistance but i have no idea if they can dock with the ISS or not.

*** the question if Boeing has to compensate for the damage incurred from the delay is also unanswered but as these are American astronauts and an Americans company that is national space law and therefore not my problem. #internationallawforever

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Payton Armstrong at MMFA:

Right-wing media figures are exploiting the devastating Los Angeles County wildfires to further their crusade against diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, suggesting the fires are burning out of control because LAFD's chief is an LGBTQ woman who supports DEI initiatives, declaring “DEI = DIE,” and claiming that “it literally leads to death.”

Uncontained wildfires in Los Angeles County have forced thousands to evacuate

Wildfires in Los Angeles have killed at least five and forced tens of thousands to evacuate their homes, and the fires remain largely uncontained. The Los Angeles Times reported that “more than 1,000 homes, businesses and other buildings have burned and at least two people are dead in wildfires burning across L.A. County, making this one of the most destructive firestorms to hit the region in memory.” [Los Angeles Times, 1/8/25, 1/7/25]

Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley, who is the first woman and first openly LGBTQ person to serve in the role, said that “the fire is being fueled by a combination of strong winds and surrounding topography, which is making it extremely challenging for our personnel that are assigned to this incident.” She also said that the fires are “stretching the capacity of emergency services to their maximum limits.” [ABC7/KABC, 6/5/24; Los Angeles Times, 1/8/25, 1/8/25]

Right-wing media repeatedly used disasters in 2024 to baselessly attack diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. After a series of equipment malfunctions with Boeing passenger jets, right-wing media rushed to blame the failures on DEI policies. Several commentators also linked the Baltimore bridge collapse to DEI programs, declaring that “DEI equals die,” and Fox News' Jeanine Pirro recently responded to the New Orleans terror attack by calling the police chief “a DEI hire.” [Media Matters, 1/12/24, 1/25/24, 3/8/24, 7/15/24, 3/26/24, 3/30/24, 1/3/25]

Right-wing media figures are using the wildfires in the Los Angeles area to exploit anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ hatred all because the LAFD chief Kristin Crowley is a lesbian woman who backs DEI programs.

The faux outrage over DEI is part of the right-wing war on non-cis white male [conservative] Americans in leadership roles.

See Also:

HuffPost: Trump Calls On Newsom To Resign; Republicans Blame DEI For Inability To Contain Wildfires

Daily Kos: Delusional right-wing media blames California fires on DEI

[sunnyuto]

In you’ve ever thought that the policy we make here in the US doesn’t affect the entire planet, this week has chosen to prove you wrong.

KLM flight 1204 from Oslo, Norway to Amsterdam made an emergency landing in Sandefjord, Norway at about 7pm local time Saturday 12/28, roughly an hour after taking off. The aircraft experienced a hydraulic failure and ended up skidding off the runway and into the grass. Fortunately, none of the 182 passengers and crew were injured.

Jeju Air flight 2216 from Bangkok, Thailand to Muan International Airport in South Korea crashed shortly after 9am local time Sunday morning 12/29, approximately 6 hours after the KLM flight malfunction, killing 179 of the 181 people on board. The plane suffered a bird strike, which killed an engine, then reportedly had a fire start on board, was cleared to make an emergency landing in the wrong direction on the runway, its landing gear failed, it skidded into a concrete wall and exploded on impact. There is a video circulating, it is very difficult to watch.

Jeju Air flight 7C101 from Seoul, South Korea to Jeju Island returned to Seoul at about 7am local time Monday morning, approximately 20 minutes after takeoff and 22 hours after the 2216 crash, when its indicators signaled a landing gear issue. It fortunately landed safely and its passengers were transferred to an alternate flight, save for 21 people who cited safety concerns and chose not to be rebooked.

These three incidents all occurred on Boeing 737-800 planes within 28 hours of each other and two of them explicitly involved landing gear issues. It is a miracle that only one was deadly. I cannot even begin to imagine the feeling of racing toward your certain death at a speed of several hundred miles per hour knowing there’s nothing you can do, especially for the pilots who could see the wall coming and knew they didn’t have any way of slowing themselves down. It’s a horrifying atrocity and has led to the South Korean government rightfully grounding and inspecting all 737-800 planes.

Boeing is an American company that manufactures in America and is subject to American manufacturing and safety standards and regulated by the FAA. To my knowledge, none of the passengers or crew members on any of these flights were Americans. And yet here they are, having their lives irreparably affected and even destroyed by American policy. From the 179 victims on flight 2216, there are over 600 body parts that first responders are having to identify and match in order to return bodies to families. Some of them likely won’t ever be identified, such as the pilots who took the impact first and who were almost certainly completely obliterated.

Boeing has been the subject of over 200 whistleblower complaints and multiple lawsuits in 2024, alleging that they push quantity over quality, have ignored quality control errors and flags, and have let planes with known mechanical defects get shipped anyway. Two Boeing whistleblowers died this year within weeks of being publicly identified, and a third who was identified in early December says they fear for their life.

American policy is directly responsible for this. Capitalism is directly responsible for this. Deregulation and lack of oversight are directly responsible for this. Our government’s failure to hold corporations accountable is directly responsible for this.

[girderednerve]

For 15 years now, engineers and quality control specialists have implored regulators, journalists and airlines to take a closer look at the 787 Dreamliner, Boeing’s first and only clean-sheet commercial airplane designed from scratch since the company’s horrific 1997 merger with McDonnell Douglas. The smooth surface of the lightweight composite fibers used to construct the airframe can conceal deadly structural flaws, they warned. The non-union workforce that manufactures the jets in South Carolina is unqualified to stand up to “good old boy” bosses constantly pressuring them to ignore obvious nonconformities, install malfunctioning parts and cut every corner imaginable to get planes out the door, they asserted. Unsavory subcontractors have exploited Boeing’s lax standards to litter the assembly line with fake parts, they demonstrated. 

But until today, the contrarians could always demand to know: if the Dreamliner is so unsafe, why hasn’t it ever crashed?

The late John Barnett, who died last March in an apparent suicide two days into a three-day deposition stemming from the insane practices he witnessed and tried vainly to stop as a quality manager at the Dreamliner’s final assembly plant in Charleston, South Carolina, had a ready answer for this question: Just wait a bit. Most planes aren’t designed to dive nosefirst into the ground like the 737 Max. It generally takes, he’d say with audible sadness, ten or twelve years for assembly-line sloppiness to culminate in a plane crash.

[beardedmrbean]

March 12 (UPI) -- NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are expected to return home after spending nine months in orbit.

Four astronauts are slated to launch to the International Space Station Wednesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a mission dubbed Crew-10, which is to bring the pair home.

Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams have been in space since June 2024 after taking part in the first crewed test flight of Boeing's Starliner.

Their mission aboard the ISS was only supposed to take a week, but the Boeing capsule intended to take them home experienced malfunctions and a fuel leak, so NASA and Boeing chose to leave them in space as their craft was returned unmanned.

The two astronauts ended up merging with the team already aboard the ISS, helping them with their mission.

The exact date of their return remains unannounced, as any outgoing astronauts aboard the ISS typically spend days training and briefing incoming teams on any ongoing work and experiments.

Astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are also to come home with Williams and Wilmore. NASA said in an online statement Thursday that the four completed more than 900 hours of research that included over 150 "unique scientific experiments and technology demonstrations during their stay aboard the orbiting laboratory."

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

After nine months stranded on the International Space Station, Captain Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Captain Suni Williams have returned safely to Earth after being retrieved by the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

The astronauts’ homegoing was intended to be a mere eight to ten days following their arrival in June 2024. However, after several malfunctions with the Boeing Starliner capsule were discovered, reentry to Earth became impossible.

The situation became even more dire after crossing the six-month mark, which is the maximum time astronauts are able to remain on the Space Station without significant health risks, including loss of bone density. As months passed, SpaceX reportedly urged then-President Joe Biden to allow their crews…

[phoenixyfriend]

Calls for Action, Call Your Reps: 3/12/24

This is USA-specific, as that is the place I live and know.

Find your elected officials.

As usual, most of my information on what bills are on the floor comes from GovTrack. I am including some suggested listening/reading (you can find text versions if you google the title and 'transcript') at the bottom of the post. I am also including a current event that is likely to be a very powerful argument, with the right politicians. The event is prefaced with a red warning tag, and followed by event-specific verbiage.

Suggested verbiage and strategies for calling your elected officials. We've recently seen politicians, including Biden, start to pivot towards the "Israel is increasing danger to itself" argument in public statements.

The most immediate and pressing issue at this moment is the famine in Gaza. The air drops are inefficient and dangerous (several people died due to a parachute malfunction), and the floating pier will not be ready any time soon. Trucks across land borders MUST be allowed in.

At this time, the three greatest factors in that famine are:

Israeli bombardment (destruction of existing food stores and farming land).

Israeli blockades of the Egyptian border into Gaza, preventing aid trucks from places like the US from reaching people, and turning away trucks on their own side of the northern and eastern border that contain items like medical scissors, solar panels, and anesthetic.

The cessation of funding to UNRWA, which has been the lifeline to Palestinian civilians for decades, and is currently the best and possibly only chance to save the one and a half million dying civilians

This information is being reported by the WHO, UNRWA itself, UNICEF, and more, along with journalists that are in Gaza at this time.

Both House and Senate:

Reinstate funding for UNRWA. While the claims made by Israel that employees of the relief agency were involved in Oct. 7th are troubling, THEY are not well supported, and western officials did not do their duty in investigating the claims before cutting funding. This arm of the UN is currently providing food, water, shelter, and medical care to the 2.3 million displaced peoples of Gaza. It is especially disturbing and concerning that the many children of Gaza, who are already suffering due to this conflict, are now having this support revoked. Many sources are also claiming that the evidence is flimsy at best.

Urge both Senate and House to refrain from funding Israel, or to at least put some strings on it. The IDF cannot be given funding without some regulations on what they can do with it. They have proven that they are unwilling to take steps to protect civilians.

Sanctions must also be placed on Israel for its continued impediment of aid intended for Gazans, including aid from the US.

Urge for the US to stop vetoing ceasefire demands in the UN. No, the suggested replacement written by the US is not an excuse.

Not directly related to Gaza: It looks like they’re gearing up for another push at KOSA. The canned email responses I’m getting are really proud of being in support of KOSA, which is… bad. It is also bad for people outside the US, including Palestine, apparently. VOTE NAY.

Not related to Gaza:

The US, France, and Canada are meddling in the Haitian government and pressing for "peace" under US terms. The international community cannot continue to seed problems in this country for their own purposes. Also, feel free to drop a note about how France and the US need to pay reparations for the double debt.

Domestic affairs: Press for a less harsh immigration policy than the one currently in Congress. Press for investigation into the Boeing whistle-blower death, and for stricter oversight and safety regulations on large corporations.

[letthemsayfuck]

Edit: I've updated this post to tick off things that happened. I wrote this list in early December but now it's finally time to lock in my top 10 2025 predictions:

Spn actors post videos to celebrate the 20th anniversary. A movie is announced that either retcons the finale entirely or takes place in a different timeline.

MCR actually releases new studio recorded music (not old demos, leaked scrapped projects, or remixes/reworking of previous material). ❌

April 11th- Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge Remaster announced. Whilst cool, not new material. Still holding out hope.

Gothic, emo and scene fashion makes a comeback in a big way.

Musk and Trump have a falling out. ✅

It fucking happened!!

June 5th - Trump and Musk's relationship flames out just as intensely and publicly as it started

New teen movie remake (or original) is shitcanned by critics but is ironically good/so good its bad and gets a small cult following.

AI is used to commit a high profile crime (political sabotage, celebrity, or money related) that is chaotic good in alignment, completely divides the internet on whether or not it was justified. Governments finally start making moves to regulate the use of artificial intelligence.

First celebrity/prominent figure death linked to ozemic use.

Biden diagnosed with dementia/alzheimers. ❌

May 19th - Joe Biden diagnosed with prostate cancer

Luigi dies under suspicious circumstances.

Deadly Boeing airplane crash as a result of technical malfunction/maintenance errors. ✅ Launches criminal investigation into the company. ❌

I swear I wrote this one on the 3rd of December!!.

December 29th 2024 - Boeing 737-800 crashes in South Korea resulting in 179 deaths. Plane scraped the runway whilst trying to land and hit a wall, landing gear was not deployed. "birds" are being blamed as the cause of the accident.

Sadly Boeing is not being held accountable for this particular incident. They are, however, attending a hearing to determine the cause of the door plug incident.