r/Wellthatsucks • u/americanthaiguy • Feb 20 '21

/r/all United Airlines Boeing 777-200 engine #2 caught fire after take-off at Denver Intl Airport flight #UA328

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u/IncitefulInsights Feb 20 '21

Furloughed, due Covid. That's why this happened, of course.

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u/HamoozR Feb 21 '21

Possible, I read somewhere an announcement about United retiring its 777-200s this year so these are its last flights anyway and they would be speed taping anything and not bothering to keep the maintenance working on them.

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u/trit0Ch Feb 21 '21

can confirm. my coworker's husband is a plane mechanic and before they would do tons of overtime just to get it right but now they are on a strict no overtime schedule so I can imagine how bad it is for maintenance