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Old 24th Mar 2019, 02:48
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After Go!Go!Go! and bad process in design and certification, the rush now is to create a quickfix and use lobbying to push the planes back into the air without an extensive check and recertification.

This may not be smart: the losses during an extensive safety recheck would be painful but bearable. The effect of another "incident" might push Boeing heavily into the red.

It may be useful to blame "foreign pilot" error for every crash, but in the end mostly every plane flown outside the US is flown by a "foreign pilot", and foreign certification authorities might be more eager than the FAA to pursue the issue of certification of the Max after design changes from the previous 737 types.

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