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Some of the world’s most popular commercial airplanes are getting dismantled years, if not decades, earlier than expected. These aircraft are getting stripped of valuable parts worth millions. The rest is crushed and recycled. It is the result of a shortage of parts, none more precious and expensive than aircraft engines, that has exasperated airlines and driven up costs for years. CNBC went to Goodyear, Arizona to find out why.
Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
1:01 - An unusual trend
2:23 - Stripping for parts
5:08 - Spirit Airlines collapse
6:50 - Fixing the problem
Produced and Reported by: Leslie Josephs
Edited by: Erin Black
Senior Managing Producer: Tala Hadavi
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Why Young Airplanes Are Being Torn Apart For Scrap
Damn, even entry level jobs for airplanes are getting gutted
As a former Spirit employee, seeing those yellow aircraft get crushed is so saddening.
seems kinda sad and wasteful to me
as a pilot this video breaks my heart, young aircraft with a life full of productivity for years, scrapped for engines and parts what a disgrace, very sad😢
Dam, Pratt and Whitney having these kinds of issues, incredible...
Aircraft tech here. These new PW engines are junk. To this day they’re still leaking through the bearings and causing “wet sock smell” in cabin. What they’re smelling is engine oil fumes. Which is carcinogenic. Our major airline is constantly changing these engines. First it was Hawaiian and spirit. Then rest is taking hit now since it takes little time for problem to start to show.
Could not finished watching this, my stomach churned on the first 20 seconds. What a shame to have a perfectly fine and young aircraft being crushed in such fashion 😢😢
As a commercial pilot, this makes me feel sad. Such inefficiency
As a former pilot, it just breaks my heart seeing all those perfectly good aircraft being scrapped. So much potential productivity left in all of them.
What's crazy is they are scraping 6 year old Airbuses for their engines/parts yet we see other videos of 40 year old Boeing 737's still flying with their gas guzzling engines. What a strange industry.
The waste involved with this is so depressing.
I used to rent one of the t-hangars in the background of the shots of Goodyear. In those days, they were stripping and shredding American Airlines DC-10s that had been retired and stored on the north side of the runway. The sound of those amazing airplanes being ripped apart was heartbreaking.
It’s another way to keep competition from happening. And selling more new planes.
This looks absolutely heartbreaking 😢
Our species is so wasteful.
Just breaks your heart to see a very young aircraft head to the scrap yard. To be honest, there are a few airlines in the developing world that could have used these aircraft but got outbid by bigger entities looking for secondary market parts. There are quite a few B787 Dreamliners that are parked worldwide because of shortage of parts, the pandemic and trade wars have seriously impacted supply chains and everything will take years to return to normal, if ever.
Strange they're salvaging engines when they could just take the entire plane and put it into service. 🤔
This is insanely short-sighted action for temporary financial gain
Even more gutted to see A380 being dismantled
I could use that skeleton for my cockpit for my home flight sim :'(