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Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation

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165 points starkparker | 3 comments | 10 Jul 25 20:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.459s | source
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supportengineer ◴[10 Jul 25 21:43 UTC] No.44525949[source]▶
The accident happened because a piece on the airplane wasn’t put back on the right way. The company that made the plane didn’t teach the workers well enough or check their work carefully. Also, the people in charge of making sure planes are safe didn’t do a good job checking on things.
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bboygravity ◴[10 Jul 25 22:06 UTC] No.44526187[source]▶
And the whistleblower trying to warn people about this and other issues was potentially executed by the company.
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BolexNOLA ◴[10 Jul 25 22:08 UTC] No.44526212[source]▶
I see this conspiracy theory hasn’t died yet
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user3939382 ◴[10 Jul 25 22:12 UTC] No.44526252[source]▶
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703.amp

This is one of two. As theories go conspiracy is pretty plausible in this case. Unless you’re just naive about how the world works.

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vel0city ◴[10 Jul 25 22:29 UTC] No.44526410[source]▶
There's supposedly video evidence of him parking his truck and nobody approaching it at all until people were there discovering the body. He had his personal firearm in his hand, ballistics suggest the bullet came from his gun, and it followed a path that made sense with him holding it and using it on himself.

But hey I guess they did some kind of mind control on him.

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1. BolexNOLA ◴[11 Jul 25 01:21 UTC] No.44527515[source]▶
edit: I misread your original comment
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2. vel0city ◴[11 Jul 25 01:27 UTC] No.44527557[source]▶
I mean lots of local news agencies played clips of it. Numerous agencies got a copy of it. Few seem to deny its existence from what I can tell. It's not like certain lists that are one person's desk one day and never existed the next. The video is out there, I just hadn't personally watched it before so I personally couldn't vouch for it absolute existence. I guess a ton of people's beliefs entirely hinge on if I, vel0city, have personally examined the materials.

Y'all are really reading a lot into my usage of supposedly in that statement.

3. AnimalMuppet ◴[11 Jul 25 01:39 UTC] No.44527625[source]▶
Hmm. When you put it that way, it rings a bell. One of the things in the fascist playbook is that the enemy is both very strong and very weak.

Looking through Eco's 14 points of fascism, I could see conspiracy theories fitting numbers 2, 4, 7, and 8, and having a tendency toward 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, and 14.

I hadn't considered conspiracy theory believers to be in any way related to fascists. But maybe I could see it. Both are a simplistic overarching narrative with clear-cut good guys and bad guys (and therefore at least an implied morality). But still, I'm kind of surprised here. I'm not sure I know what to make of this.