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The FAA suffered a major loss of credibility in their handling of the first round of testing/accreditation of the MAX.

The FAA can't afford another stuff up this second time around and as such I suspect they will be checking every aspect of the plane in very fine detail.

That could spell more trouble for Boeing.

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I still don't trust the FAA at all. They've been sourcing out their own work to Boeing since the 787 Dreamliner [0]. That's seven years ago. I don't think this will make them change their practices. The 787 fiasco certainly didn't.

Personally I'd be happiest if the world just scrapped all the Max-es. Just scrap 'em, let Boeing go out of business, it's what they deserve now, they shouldn't exist anymore as a company. There are enough businesses that happily create planes without putting profit before people.

It's really too bad that there's no footage of either of the crashes, because if people could see what happened they would never fly one of those things again. That's why people don't fly zeppelins anymore. Not because of what people said or read, but because they saw. The Max deserves the same.

Do you want to fly in a plane which was created using the deaths of over 300 people to finalize the design?

[0] The Boeing 787: Broken Dreams, Al Jazeera Investigations, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkEpstd9os

👤BorRagnarok🕑6y🔼0🗨️0

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I think overall we should consider this process a very positive thing, FAA and Boeing (and Airbus as well) are all going to learn a lot from this process which will make air travel safer in the future. It's unfortunate that it took two tragedies to get us here but if you look at the history of aviation improvements this isn't the first and it won't be the last time.
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I wonder what would be unearthed should they also choose to look at Boeing's other planes in such similar scrutiny.
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Asking because I legitimately don't know: was the FAA failure here more attributable to the agency, or the funding (and therefore manpower*expertise) available to it?
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The FAA suffered a major loss of credibility in their handling of the first round of testing/accreditation of the MAX. The FAA can't afford another stuff up this second time...

Because I'll just check with the next air transit regulatory body right?

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That makes me doubt the severity of this issue slightly. Maybe the FAA is pointing out a relatively minor issue to rebuild trust, and Boeing isn't in the position to disagree, or even say it's minor, so they're acquiescing.
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> they will be checking every aspect of the plane in very fine detail.

But is that really what is going on here? Are they equipped to do so any longer?

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Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if this was an issue somebody knew about but with the recent attention they're forced to disclose it before somebody else discovers it.
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