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Bend alot
But the interpretation (selection) of classification/s have been somewhat bias in the design process, lots of lets call dark grey areas white!
So while the MAX was indeed compliant whit the latest regulation/s that Being deemed was the classifications to be meet - they fudged the numbers and the result ended catastrophic TWICE because that classification was two rungs lower than what it should have been.
I would love to see the paper trail of the reduction of manual trim wheel size that happened from the NG - no doubt it was not classed as a major change (hard to believe when the roller coaster manoeuvre was documented for the larger wheel).
Lots of smoke and mirrors seem to have been used over the last few models.
Mistakes were obviously made during the MAX cert. Perhaps mistakes where made during the NG cert (although apparently not very serious mistakes, since the NG is statistically slightly safer than the A320 series). I hazard to guess that, since humans are involved, mistakes have been made during the cert of every aircraft flying (obviously some more serious than others)
But a common theme of this thread has blamed the MAX problems on a 1967 cert basis. Which is quite simply wrong. Cert basis had nothing to do with it.