C919: Flying Junk? Even Vietnam Won't Touch It!

China's C919 aircraft, heavily promoted by the Chinese government as the first completely "domestic" plane, actually has poor quality and frequent issues. Most of its main parts come from the US, and it hasn't received airworthiness certificates from Europe or the US.
Recently, Vietnam Airlines faced a shortage of planes due to engine maintenance problems, causing a spike in domestic ticket prices. During a shareholders' meeting, shareholders asked if Vietnam Airlines would consider buying the C919 to address the shortage. According to Vietnam News, CEO Le Hong Ha said they are closely watching the C919's progress in getting global airworthiness certification. Currently, only Chinese authorities have certified it, suggesting Vietnam Airlines is not considering purchasing the C919 yet.
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[@HungPhamVan-ir6dt]

Damn, are they getting the rejected Boeing parts to build the plane

[@matthewmosier8439]

Boeing parts are generally fine. A door falling off has been turned into a mountain by the media.. the question is, "why?"

[@fabferrari]

@@matthewmosier8439 Well, it's not only a matter of a "door". Please keep in mind that just yesterday: "Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to a felony fraud charge and pay a new fine in connection with two 737 Max 8 crashes that killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a court filing on Sunday night".

[@matthewmosier8439]

@@fabferrari Yeah, but those crashes likely would not have occured had the pilots been Western trained. The dirty truth is that the men were not as experienced and the regretable crashes occured because of that. A similar incident/incidents did not result in a crash due to the response to the problem. Also, the issue itself was software, not parts related, I'm pretty sure.

[@fabferrari]

@@matthewmosier8439 I agree with you that we are facing a typical case of "Swiss cheese model" of accident cause. It's also a matter of fact that from the engineering standpoint the design concept was stretched way too much and it was used an "electronic trick" to overcome the technical issues. The lack of training was also part of the Boeing responsibility. In fact the investigation of the U.S. Department of Justice proved that Boeing advertised the new airplane as not needed to extra training for the pilots.

[@tierra6391]

@@HungPhamVan-ir6dt another delusional person. Who in their right mind would use anything from Boeing. Boeing is responsible for a number of accidents that cost the lives of hundreds of people and could have been avoided. News flash, China had nothing to do with it. This was all through the incompetency from Boeing. Look for another reason to trash talk the Chinese aircraft. Using Boeing is redundant as Boeing is now a dangerous manufacturing company. Only there for profits.

[@jcmoralde65]

Made in china??Think Million times😅😅😅

[@holycrapski]

Every passenger gets their own Chinese parachute that opens on impact.

[@LiZhengYe]

How about Flying coffin Boeing 737 max..??

[@Villjune53]

@@holycrapski 😂🤣😅

[@isaiahandreiaguibay8849]

I know the doors in Boeing aircrafts can be ripped off after flight, but an airline that's made in China has a lot of red flags popping out of it

[@raphaelgonzales8462]

That's what you get when you buy your airplane on temu😂😂😂😂

[@mlee888]

Fly like a billionaire 🤣🤣🤣

[@tonythai5991]

They could call it C911!

[@hunggiang1475]

Let be realistic, China is not known for quality or safety.

[@nfuryboss]

Indeed.

[@G.A.C_Preserve]

@@nfuryboss it used to be an US tactic back in the Vietnam war with bullet that will explode the AK-47 (low chances), but now then china can do all of that Low Quality stuff even without the help of the USA

[@murali5247]

That’s a myth . That’s what the westerners thought about japan before the war . If China can send people to space and bring them back, have space station , fantastic infrastructure which the west can only be jealous about etc.etc What quality do you want ? China makes products to suit your price ..consequently the quality is for the price you pay . Although China is now very assertive and at times behaves arrogantly ..... one must give credit where it’s due .. They seem to excel in everything they do - solar panels , drones , heavy equipment, power generation etc ,

[@hunggiang1475]

@@murali5247 westerners are the #1 consumers of made in China, I’m sure it’s from experience.

[@darbas57]

@hunggiang1475 My friend had a shoe store where he sold better quality shoes from Spain, Germany, England, and e.t.c. One day, one of his suppliers came over and told him that they subcontracted their shoes to chinese. The quality improved over the years. Besides, before the industrial revolution, 25 % of the world's industrial output was chinese.

[@raphaelgonzales8462]

If it's made in china it must be crap😂😂😂

[@u2ber888]

@@raphaelgonzales8462 like ur iPhone crap made in ind!a today?

[@raphaelgonzales8462]

@@u2ber888 hahahahahaha ULOL i dont use iphone like you it is a piece of SH!T

[@Joachim4964]

Even crap has fertilizer value unlike Chinese low quality products.

[@u2ber888]

@@raphaelgonzales8462 jealousy counts. Not all expensive stuff made in the West are superior.

[@raphaelgonzales8462]

@u2ber888 wrong!! Buy cheap and you get cheap and low quality especially made in china. . .it is full of 💩💩💩💩

[@kryts27]

C-dial 991. The wings probably will fall off mid-flight. Cardboard coffins for passengers come for free 😂

[@chinesesparrows]

Xi would rather fly on boeing than c919 🤣

[@HaggiyoPilipinas]

Exactly 😂

[@peterantonic5216]

@@chinesesparrows That is correct, he uses a Boeing 747-400 and he allowed North Korean Kim Jon Ul To use it to fly to Singapore for a meeting with then president Donald Trump about 4 years ago.

[@daneurope9167]

even the chinese politburo and Xijing pi never fly this chinese planes..

[@htee7426]

Of course not!

[@zenon7094]

In which planes does the CCP and state officials fly abroad? If these are not the planes thatChina itself produces, then there is something seriously wrong with them.

[@rogerfroud300]

The FAA can't even inspect Boeing to guarantee a safe product, so what chance do they have with a Chinese company?

[@jeffgann6613]

Oh, hell no. I won't even buy a bicycle made there.😬

[@davehue9517]

With copied, stolen and borrowed parts and design.....no way I'd take a chance flying in it

[@gregoriemorales9980]

@@davehue9517 yes, but no not really its like drop shipping items its just old parts that western companies sell, like the LEAP-1C engine which is just a dumbed down version of the LEAP-1A found on newer A320Neos and 737max, it has more in common with the CFM56-5B which is like 90s tech

[@I_SuperHiro_I]

A Chinese plane……..umm, no.

[@user-ss4zj2sz7h]

I wouldnt fly on one. Boeing may have ssome ongoing issues but the amount of planes Boeing have flying internationaly and daily with jo issues ever speaks for itself.

[@secretagentcat]

I wouldnt trust newer models from boeiny

[@stevenhirsson795]

Haha … DEI HIRE … The DOORS FLY OFF 50,000 ft. HIGH … STILL LAUGHING

[@edwardbryan9501]

China is like that kid boasting about having built his own original Lego creation after following the instructions.

[@terrieterblans7027]

If even 1 part on this plane is made by the same companies that makes Chinese EV's, it is a death trap .

[@peterantonic5216]

Tufu Dreg Airlines, who in their right mind would even consider flying in one? Just take a look at their famous BYD electric cars, no quality in materials or workmanship. BYD ( Burn Your Driveway) lost ten dealerships in China in the last 3 years due to their EV batteries going into thermal runaway and destroying everything. Would you really want to fly in the C919? 👎😳

[@tlam23557]

Việt Nam Airline should buy this only for high-level VN government officers to travel

[@AndyTN64]

And only sell one way tickets

[@funcuzchris4466]

Do you hate them?

[@AndyTN64]

@@funcuzchris4466 Do you love them?

[@lexmercatoria2774]

Even if the Chinese get this first C919 plane certified, they'll cut corners on those coming off the assembly line afterwards.

[@thedarkknight4243]

Made in China, Chineseum, Tofu plane, Boeing knock-off

[@ookammi]

i dont care what certifications they end up buying, i will never fly on a chinese plane

[@curzon176]

You couldn't pay me enough money to take a flight anywhere in a Chinese made airplane. No way.

[@vemaraju]

Fly Boeing 😂

[@nvt6781]

Vietnam: C919 is truly a “Beautiful Suicidal Machine”!

[@Noducks4life]

Ryanair flights gonna get cheaper. But it’s the last flight you’ll ever take…

[@wintersbattleofbands1144]

All tickets are "one way."

[@TigerUppercut.00]

When you put a bunch of foreign parts together to make a plane.. it's just a "Made in China" plane.. it's not a "Chinese Made" plane..

[@brunojm7282]

C919 = 85% western parts and technology 15% Chinese Temu whatever parts

[@Edwardianschool]

Temu Airlines! 😅

[@YourHineyness]

And the way I understand it, all of the parts on an airplane are rather important. So if 15% of them fail...

[@padgaprao2617]

Made from the highest quality metal known to science …. Chinesium

[@rogerm4310]

I wouldn't fly in one of these dangerous junk heap flying coffins, no sir.

[@Lirang4nime]

Damn, are they getting the rejected Boeing parts to build the plane?😂

[@jimshoe402]

United tire just Fell Off But Don't worry they found it..

[@fabferrari]

No, they learnt from the Boeing mistakes and tried to improve the design.

[@YourHineyness]

@@fabferrari Perhaps Boeing's mistake was buying Chinese parts.

[@johnhelms]

I didn't see Xi flying in it,shouldn't the president show his people that it is safe?

[@m.h.f3350]

Bet, even Temu wouldn't distribute the C919 because it's too scammy 😂😂

[@dnguyen787]

Nowadays, Vietnam has used only commercial aircraft made by Boeing and Airbus. "Even Vietnam" sounds odd, doesn't it? LOL

[@Kanhow]

Agreed

[@erliecunanan3141]

Do you have other brand in mind?

[@dnguyen787]

@@erliecunanan3141 Russian airliners...

[@misterbig9025.]

China 🇨🇳 has a long history of copying planes, but failed to enter the market. -MA60, a copy of Antonov 🇺🇦 An-24 -Y10, a copy of Boeing 🇺🇸 707 -ARJ21, a copy of Douglas 🇺🇸 MD90 and now C919, a copy of Airbus 🇪🇺 A320

[@kwwong2893]

Without EASA and FAA certificarions, C919 can hardly get any international customer

[@controllerplayer1720]

C919 sounds like Covid September 2019.. C 9/19

[@radiowolf3016]

thats a good one, that one is too chineese made!

[@paulfuchs6920]

Flying coffin.

[@dbblues.9168]

I wouldnt fly on a Boeing right now, I sure as heck wouldn't fly on CCP tofu airplanes.

[@totzinfo]

this channel is full bogus information and trolls of black propaganda, all info are reverted to appear negative views, C919 already pass all requirements and compliance to the global adaptation of reliability, performance and quality, that is why most airliners who owns of Boeing ill fated models with frequent crash in past few years are replacing their fleet with Comac C919

[@totzinfo]

it is not true that C919 components are mostly from U.S. and Europe because most parts and component of C919 is not compatible to western system including electronics and metallurgy, China now has the best ALUMINIUM ALLOYS ever produce compared to western countries, China's aluminium alloys use in COMAC C919 are 4x stronger and 2x lighter than the west can produce, even China's tensile steel are 2x stronger and .5x lighter than the western metals

[@gaoxiaen1]

@@totzinfo 老王賣果!

[@aliteralxoixeo21420]

ill do you better how about airbus?

[@ps3301]

Let them fly for 15 years before certification

[@williamsue280]

Buy quality not junk.

[@lance8080]

Flying coffin 🇨🇳

[@edwinheringer8829]

Flying coffin from china free ride

[@Yummy_Honeybun]

Boing are just rusty Rolex planes But made in china planes are trash but shiney as frick😂

[@funkyfreddurst]

Who would fly in a plane that has only 100 hours of testing. C919 belly landing all over the world.

[@SPYOPSUNDERGROUNDFOX]

WON'T EVER FLY IN THAT PC OF JUNK - FROM TUFO BUILDING -BRIDGES TO PLANES

[@sugarcan1110]

737 max c919 never had issues ....clown mate

[@alapaticornell4391]

Copy cats. Fake tofu Plane. The flying coffin. Fly at your onw risk😢. Blessings for Taiwan, Ukraine & Hong Kong.

[@totzinfo]

this channel is full bogus information and trolls of black propaganda, all info are reverted to appear negative views, C919 already pass all requirements and compliance to the global adaptation of reliability, performance and quality, that is why most airliners who owns of Boeing 737 ill fated models with frequent crash in past few years are replacing their fleet with Comac C919

[@njikangclifford8259]

@@totzinfo Problem is the level of 'people' out here. They seem to find her the 'right place' to dump all their bitterness in life!

[@apsmith1635]

No flight for me in a CCP plane

[@Ukie88]

Don’t fly CCP air.

[@gowdsake7103]

Dont fly Boeing

[@hsiaochiangtang8911]

@@gowdsake7103your supreme leader flies Boeing 😂

[@raphaelfrancis4509]

Imagine you are flying on a Chinese plane, and you saw one of the engine fall off.... 🤣🤣🤣

[@O530CarrisPT_C2]

The FAA won't certify the C919 that easily.

[@hansalexanderlianata5944]

how is boeing now brother..? ha.ha..ha..

[@saasasasassasa]

Everyone know it's junk. Please don't use the word "even"

[@sreed8570]

No fan of communist China here, but its ironic how China becoming an assembler of aircraft with parts outsourced from other nations is a big issue but western nations doing the same thing with parts from China is perfectly fine.

[@eh-269]

Yk how it is, irony at its finest, although ig it’s because if 100% Chinese made parts, which can get a bit sketchy😅compared to maybe 50% 50%. Also idk about the quality inspection there in China, but I’m not really trusting it with previous situations, although 100% of it can be said about Boeing too.

[@mypartyisprivate8693]

Easy. Basic cheap parts are less sophisticated than complicated devices and systems. Outsourcing cheap parts to cheap labor markets made sense.

[@mypartyisprivate8693]

Sorry, no irony.

[@maxhugen]

Boeing is bad enough... but no way would I trust my life flying a piece of cobbled-together Chinese tofu. 😬

[@TigerUppercut.00]

I rather get on a Boeing than the C919.. 😁😁

[@donaldsherman660]

i wont fly on any chinese planes i would rather walk eventually ill make itif i stay off chinese planes

[@salvatorequattrocchi2582]

The China C919 airliner is a “FLYING JUNK” riddled with serious flaws mechanically, reliability, maintenance factors all impacting safety. Airworthiness obviously is of highest priority which DOES NOT EXISTS today in China.

[@Hyper_NexusJunisBlue]

Vietnam Airlines rather buys Airbus A320neo

[@rebeltheharem7028]

The one thing you can't cheap out on is planes. Boeing knows. Ask them how it turned out.

[@muffdiver4973]

I would still rather fly in a Boeing than any Chinese built airplanes.

[@tarzan12345]

“Even” is not necessary here. The Vietnamese populace are among the most skeptical of China in the world so any airline in Vietnam operates Chinese-made planes, they will likely face a boycott so the airline bosses know it.

[@tommytomas-fr3sh]

to be fair, comac is not really looking for a foreign market as their main task is to fulfill the Chinese domestic market which is already the second largest after the US. all these Europe and US certifications are just to boost their own prestige that their airplane is as good as Boeing and Airbus.

[@khaid.5167]

As a Vietnamese, i would confirm that vietnam communist goverment don't have enogh money to buy, we are run out of money and have a lot troubles with debt too.

[@tenglim4406]

It's kinda sad to hear that. Hopefully your country's situation will turn better soon. Anyhow, I last heard that the VA's financial situation is close to bankruptcy. Is that right?

[@htee7426]

I hope, even if they had the money, they would consider value for money and safety issues which Chinese crap tends not to provide. These planes will probably spontaneously burst into flames like some of their EV cars.

[@PhilmiiNutsakz]

VN ain't dumb. Lol.

[@metwo1492]

Would never fly on tofu dreg airliner.

[@wintersbattleofbands1144]

Oh my. Back down to just one airworthy. SWEET! What a great win for China! One of SIX still flying. That's almost 17%! (17% is a passing grade in China.)

[@niccoarcadia4179]

Looks like a 1959 DC-8

[@jwholmes2]

Airbus produces three times as many narrow body commercial airliners in a month than COMAC has produced in 9 years. That’s pretty much all you need to know.

[@njikangclifford8259]

And how old are both companies 'Mr arm-chair expert'? Aibus-1970; COMAC-2008 with several EUropean countries involved. with Some of them pioneers of Avaiation (ie over 100yrs experience), Took 4yrs to produce first their Aircraft COMAC-2008- China alone , little or no experience, first prototype -2015, maiden flight-2017. With your country and its lapdogs sparing no efforts to sabotage their progress, You being one such example of spreading false rumors and misinformation. Make no mistake! They'll get it eventually. It may be new to you, but you Americans stole all your Rocket and jet engine technology from the Germans after the second world war. They were light years ahead of every body in Rockets and jet engines. only the Brits came a bit close. Though they will have us think otherwise, Their first jet fighter , the Gloucester Meteor could not be trusted to make it over the Channel to France and back until the end of the war!

[@saeffareez3337]

Even some body offered me everything full sponsored travel by C919 CCP's plane..i will definitely refuse the offer and never gamble when my life is at stake???😢😮

[@S1337theoddoneout-ip9xc]

If Xi "Winnie Pooh"Jinping goes on a grand tour of Asia and Europe flying only on the C919, i'll consider it fit for passenger transport. And we all know the Atacama desert will flood before Mr Pooh does that.

[@k9killer221]

Why do I have a lack of confidence in an utterly conventional small airliner that's taken 16 years to develop? And has two groundings on the first plane due to defects.

[@NathanArnold-sf7gx]

Tofu dreg aircraft 100%

[@rho91]

Tofu cannot maintain its integrity above 10k feet 🤣

[@Hammerhead547]

COMAC succeeded in creating the C919 by copying Airbus's 30 year old second gen A320 homework and simply changing the name on it.

[@stevec3526]

If the Japanese and Mitsubishi can’t build a viable commercial airliner why do the Chinese think they can do it? Mitsubishi spent billions trying and ultimately failed.

[@user-nv5zi7tg6h]

made in china ? End of air travel 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@skysailing4355]

They should label it as Assembled in China.

[@madetgerardojr.e.3199]

Made in china pirates low quality😂

[@DrQuagmire]

Couldn’t pay me to fly on that copied 2nd rate ‘made in China’ plane… a disaster waiting. 1/3 of the fuel efficiency as every other plane in its claimed class? Nooooope.. something is wrong with it.

[@bastiancooper-queen1849]

Am only flying on Airbus, not anymore on Boeing and NEVER on a chinese one....don't want to stupidely dying.😊

[@torccchaser6712]

Tofu Dreg 919

[@EmmanuelleCn22]

🙂 look up in the sky it's a bird it's a plane no it's a flying junk from china 😅😂🤣😭

[@biggseye]

There is no way I would ever fly on that plane. It has to be a Chinese deathtrap.

[@PhilmiiNutsakz]

Only if Xi flies in it around the world then i will believe it flies. Lol.

[@JorgePerez-jg5cm]

Like most if not all Chinese products absolute garbage.

[@leechrec]

I expect China to find a way to pay off whoever is doing the inspection and verification.

[@nicholasrockall7308]

That's exactly what I was thinking too, or else they'll try to somehow blackmail the inspectors.

[@olivierdk2]

Boeing dosen't look that bad now. Maybe i've been a bit harsh with them.

[@O530CarrisPT_C2]

At least Boeing has the FAA that punishes Boeing for their safety lapses.

[@MrDannyZ123]

If Boeing is having a hard time building planes awwww hell naaaa am i getting on a chinese plane

[@Shinobubu]

Why choose a plane that has even fewer parts in stock and fewer people trained to maintain it? makes no sense.

[@georgeszurbach444]

This plane will never be certified by the EASA.

[@Nivethi-143]

yes of course, cheaper and poor quality, i m not wondering about that. Made in China 😅🤣😇

[@galaxymode]

Unlike 737 max it hasn’t fall off the sky

[@samrhecker9636]

it's an Airbus A-300 series copycat with substandard quality

[@Krazycat321]

It’s actually a McDonald’s Douglas plane that they started to set up in the china and after Boeing bought them, they deserted the plant and left all the tooling for the Chinese to absorb and they still couldn’t get it right😂😂

[@renzverg119]

Very risky investment. It's like buying a problem.

[@secretagentcat]

BOYCOT CHINA

[@LiZhengYe]

Boycott Yankees

[@minhho8719]

B careful, EU, VN b4 U buy any C919 2 B part of yr fleet. Chinese products R always problematic.

[@cerverg]

Guys that plane is not what everybody thinks it is... there so many western parts and I'm not even talking about the engines and it's still shit

[@vichyfrance7062]

Man this I just a knockoff Airbus, this is no better

[@situationalawarenes]

Aviation system, standards and safety evoluated in 100+years and are based on acknowledging facts.

[@StealthySpy]

If it's COMAC I will not embark.

[@pierreernoult]

Not nice, but funny!

[@purr-purr-purr]

tofu plane, from tofu country. china is done