Boeing 787 Dreamliner Loses Door at Remote Pacific Airport, Puzzling Engineers
aeroxplorer.com"The recent incident of this nature occurred on May 29, 2026, when a LATAM Airlines Boeing 787-8 (registration CC-BBD) had its L2 passenger door torn off by an air-stairs vehicle on Easter Island "
There. Fixed it for you.
I thought other reporting claimed that a ground handling truck crashed into the door, thereby detaching it?
"Still, any event in which a door separates from a commercial aircraft tends to attract attention from regulators, manufacturers, and airline safety teams."
As well as stockholders I'd imagine.
Reminds me of this video: https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM - "Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off"
Yeah, that's not very typical, I'd like to make that point.
> [...] Puzzling Engineers
... but not puzzling anyone who's been watching the direction Boeing has been going.
Boeing shares up 10% overnight
Put some caution tape over the door and have the pilots fly it out empty at 6,000 feet so it doesn't have to be pressurized.
Haphazardly chuck a road cone in the isle near the door.
I have never heard "church" being used as a verb before
One wonders do Apple devs even use an iPhone?
Like, under what circumstances would I want the word the changed to thr after I’ve typed the next word.
> One wonders do Apple devs even use an iPhone?
Between auto-correct and Apple search, I wonder too.
I’d like to know how Apple staff find emails on their inboxes.
The search is such shiite.
I'd venture auto-incorrect had a go here
Tapo.
Meaning: a tapographical error, compare typo.
I don’t need AI - I’m perfectly capable of being artificially intelligent all by myself
https://worldairlinenews.com/2026/05/31/latam-boeing-787-cc-... says: "The second door (L2) was torn off by the airstairs truck."
Clearly doors and boeing aircraft don't get along.
Vandalism of some type has to be a possibility right?
Can’t recommend the book Airframe by Michael Crichton to help contextualize the typical kneejerk reactions to these kinds of things versus the usual culprits enough.
Edit: thanks for pointing out the typo. Good book still.
I'll bite. Why not?
Is that the word we are using for Boeing Quality Assurance now?
was it recently adjusted by an LLM
As few have already pointed out, an AI hallucination...
Quick, to the top of HN!
Toyota engineers equally puzzled their doors fly off when you reverse through a toll booth with them open.
Can you please stop posting like this? It is tedious:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419549
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48418855
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48418524
I'm a bit confused.
The first three posts you linked were all upvoted, one sits at +10.
In absence of an official scoring rubric, how is one to know what will or won't make you upset if the feedback differs?
HN doesn't operate by upvotes alone (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). Plenty of bad comments get upvoted, especially the sensational-indignant kind that the internet is flooded with. If upvotes were the only measure, HN would be an entirely different place. Actually, it would have ceased to exist a long time ago (since its purpose is to be a place for intellectual curiosity and those things are incompatible).
Therefore, in addition to considering upvotes we have guidelines to explain the intended use of the site in general: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, as well as moderation to try to explain it in specific cases. We run HN this way because otherwise the system would get stuck in one of its failure modes (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).
In this case, posting snarky and supercilious putdowns is definitely against the intended use of HN, no matter how many upvotes they get (and they often get plenty). So please don't post those!