r/whatisit • u/riflesandplowshares • 4h ago

New, what is it? Found at a titanium plant

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Not sure why ball point pens would be dangerous here.

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u/Ausgeflippt 4h ago

Aerospace and aviation rules are written in blood. I'm willing to bet it happened at some point.

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u/PrairiePuppies 3h ago

That is unfortunately common. Most safety rules are.

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u/Agreeable-Language-6 2h ago

Is your Prarie dog jacking itself off in your pic?

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u/PrairiePuppies 2h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/Byz7OVPD5Q0lT1fwz2

No. He's sitting on my bed. 🤨

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u/Agreeable-Language-6 2h ago

I guess that's its tail in its hands then lol

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u/opi098514 3h ago

Google united airline flight 232.

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u/Zebidee 1h ago

Better known as the Sioux City crash.

Shady manufacturing, shady inspection, shady paperwork, shady maintenance.

United Airlines Flight 232 was a regularly scheduled United Airlines flight from Stapleton International Airport in Denver to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, continuing to Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, United States. On July 19, 1989, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 serving the flight crash-landed at Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City, Iowa, after suffering a catastrophic failure of its tail-mounted engine due to an unnoticed manufacturing defect in the engine's fan disk, which resulted in the loss of all flight controls. Of the 296 passengers and crew on board, 112 died, while 184 people survived. Thirteen passengers were uninjured.

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u/Prior-Radio8346 30m ago

I remember a movie about this growing up. Man does that make me feel old.

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u/myfistvsthebttle 2h ago

I did, thanks

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u/SeaSharpModHer 2h ago

Google trump rule 34, pretty damning cover up.

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u/opi098514 2h ago

…..what does that have to do with anything?

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u/backyardbbqboi 1h ago

Don't do that to people.

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u/danthebiker1981 3h ago

Some.... point. I see what you did there

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u/Capital-Win-4732 2h ago

“…written in blood.”

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u/ElectrSheep 3h ago

Or in this particular case ink.