by Charles Mudede • Feb 26, 2021 at 4:28 pm
Window view of a Boeing 777 engine. Yes. That engine. Fabian Gysel/gettyimages.com
The headline for this post is not a joke. It s something that Boeing and civic leaders should consider, because the evidence shows us that the plane manufacturer is leaving our region and that it may be irrelevant by 2025 anyway.
The news today (another Boeing plane, this time operated Russia s Rossiya Airlines, had engine problems) is not actually that bad. The same is true for the incident that happened over Denver this weekend. As terrifying as that fiery engine looked, the situation was not at all dangerous for those in the air (the same, of course, cannot be said for those on the ground). The same is true for the incident in the Netherlands (falling bits of plane, the emergency landing, and so on), which happened on the same day as the one in Denver. These incidents can all be reduced to a public relations