Originally Posted by
sb_sfo
I hope you're right, but can you imagine which bureaucrat at the FAA, having been "burned" twice now, is going to sign off on what you propose?
That would take giant brass ones, even if they believed the Boeing spin.
They're not going to sign anything off without sufficient proof - it's unlikely that they ever did, it just so happens that the lab-based certification tests failed to cover some of the eventualities in real-world operation. The issue here is that we're dealing with a type that has introduced a lot of new technology in one go and that is always going to have a higher risk of these "teething" issues. I'm certain both Boeing and the FAA were well aware of that going into this, and I'm equally certain that all parties involved will have laid out contingency plans to deal with the situation well in advance.
Any "spin" - as you put it - will be directed at investors and customers, not the regulators.