"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 "
"Still, any event in which a door separates from a commercial aircraft tends to attract attention from regulators, manufacturers, and airline safety teams."
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.
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).
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!
There. Fixed it for you.