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Old 25th May 2019, 02:07
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About "safe" vs "unsafe", many people like to divide things as "black" or "white", but usually reality consists of shades of gray.

Statistically previous versions are clearly safer. A stabilizer runaway that would bring the aircraft in a situation similar to that of the two crashed MAXes is much less likely in previous versions. That is enough to make them safer even with everything else being equal.

But there is no question that previous versions are susceptible to similar issues when electric trim is inoperable and the aircraft is severely out of trim. It was even documented in the manuals.
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