B-737 NG, too many flaws

[Ignition Override]

That is a very long list for the 737NG, however Boeing's Airline Division does not receive any government money (US or otherwise) to help it compete with its major (heavily government-sponsored) competitor, not to excuse the longer Boeing list, and so Boeing produces and sells/markets all of its airliners at a huge financial disadvantage-there is no question about it.

Could it be that the FAA ignores some potential problems with Airbus operators in distand lands? We all remember the tragedy of the ATR crash in Roselawn, Indiana. Long before this crash took place, the FAA was well aware that some serious loss-of-control incidents due to inflight icing happened to ATR-42s in Europe.

Therefore, how can we believe that the FAA reacts to each and every report of an Airbus fault, which is somehow reported to the FAA's Washington DC headquarters (reliably transmitted?) about foreign-registered A-320s etc, knowing how the FAA assumed that it understand certification of the ATR's wing characteristics when flying through cold clouds, and never reacted to the European ATR problems until after a plane with passengers onboard rolled over (while being flown in the prescribed manner with operative leading-edge boots working) and plunged into the Indiana cornfield?

Just think of foreign relations: the ever-present political factor has supposedly influenced the DOT as to which foreign airlines, whose operations and maintenance certifications allegedly meet certain ICAO standards, can operate into US airports (while excluding other nations' airlines), especially if our State Department is on good terms with a certain foreign government, as reported several years ago by "Conde Nast Traveler" magazine.

After the Valuejet tragedy, someone with the FAA claimed that a certain FAA (regional) headquarters had "buried deep in a drawer" a file which was strongly critical of Valuejet's operations-and this concerned the old, fairly simple DC-9, not the extremely complex A-320! Read out about the FAA Western Division's actions (and lack of them) during the Continental strike in 1983, under a political atmosphere in which the Republican Party needed all airline managements to crush labor, if necessary, which meant that airline operations WERE to be basically unhindered by the US govt......sermon over now, lunch will be served just outside the sanctuary following Hymn *** ["Es Flog ein kleines Waldvoeglein"] by Ludwig van B (?) (translated by Catherine Winkworth).