Originally Posted by
Mike Flynn
Sorry to disagree with you but this is a very old design that has been modified many times to the point where it no longer resembles the original but relies on its grandfather certification.
Were the shoe on the other foot Boeing and the US would be crowing about Airbus failures. The Comet and Concorde were written of with a lot less fatalities.
CAAC is within it's rights to raise concerns on the compliance of a product to the certification standard. The B737's grandfather status is not something that the OEM should be proud o, and the fact that it exists as a consequence of the nonsense of Part 61 requirements which are a bureaucratic complexity to a relatively simple task in todays world.